Empire

(325 votes)   All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(245 votes)   Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(106 votes)   Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(100 votes)   Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(98 votes)   If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

William E. Gladstone
1809-1888, British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman

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(93 votes)   And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(82 votes)   Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(79 votes)   "In my realm the sun never sets"

Charles V
King of Spain during its height.

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(79 votes)   Empire and liberty.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(78 votes)   The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(78 votes)   To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

Adam Smith
1723-1790, Scottish Economist

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(75 votes)   Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

Han Suyin
1917-, Chinese Novelist and Doctor

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(74 votes)   There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavor and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbor in the end.

Dame Barbara Ward
1914-1981, British Journalist, Economist, Conservationist

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(73 votes)   Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.

Joseph R. Sizoo

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(73 votes)   We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Sir John Robert Seeley

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