We do not need the empire to give us anything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, I do not wish to build an empire.
I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.
Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.