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«One man with a dream, at pleasure,Shall go forth and conquer a crown;And three with a new song's measureCan trample an empire down.»
«So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.»
«The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
condor, Empire, flexible, stoop, virulent
«Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
War
| Keywords:
brace, braced, braces, brace up, bracing, Continent, defying, Empire, modern world, remarkably, reminder, reminders, revolutionary, turned on
«The childhood shows the man, / As morning shows the day. Be famous then / By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, / So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.»
«Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
aggression, bases, conquest, domination, Empire, forceful, in the north, in Vietnam, North, North A, North and South, North by, North Vietnam, South, The Domination, to the north, Vietnam
«The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Government
| Keywords:
bosses, designed, Empire, Employers, interests, invisible hand, set up, special interest, special interests, The Forms
«Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.»
«The empire of custom is most mighty.»
«The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
degrade, Empire, Englishmen, follows, foundation, no more, remove, science, suppose, The Empire, The Foundation, vice, vice versa
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