Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every empire eventually falls.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
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.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
All great empires die from within.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.