In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
All great empires die from within.