Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. Votes: 5
Noah FeldmanEmpires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. Votes: 5
John Boyd OrrThe day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. Votes: 4
Joseph ChamberlainI love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished. Votes: 4
Sid MeierEmpires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing. Votes: 3
Wes NiskerThe day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come." Votes: 3
Joseph ChamberlainEmpires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within. Votes: 3
LionelThey are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever." Votes: 3
Edith DurhamA great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinIt is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. Votes: 2
Charles de MontesquieuRight is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. Votes: 2
Amos Bronson AlcottPeople who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway. Votes: 0
Robert WyattDyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. Votes: 0
Thomas de QuinceyHumiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. Votes: 0
Janet MorrisFor harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. Votes: 0
SallustBerkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. Votes: 0
Eric S. RaymondExtended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThe Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations. Votes: 0
Niall FergusonWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. Votes: 0
Ezra PoundMind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranIt is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuAfghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. Votes: 0
Maureen DowdTime shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. Votes: 0
John ArmstrongElusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. Votes: 0
Joni MitchellBetween a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. Votes: 0
Napoleon Bonaparteloves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaWe're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. Votes: 0
Ani DiFrancoDonât underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires. Votes: 0
Leila JanahWhat is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. Votes: 0
John Gresham MachenThe affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteHave you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneA soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. Votes: 0
John Lothrop MotleyWhite folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it. Votes: 3 Al Sharpton