The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Every empire eventually falls.
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.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
All great empires die from within.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.