As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
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Every empire eventually falls.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
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.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
All great empires die from within.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.