If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
For me, I do not wish to build an empire.
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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