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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.