Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Every empire eventually falls.
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.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
All great empires die from within.
Empires came and went while we, the Jewish people, persecuted relentlessly, facing expulsions and pogroms and the Holocaust, survived. We survived thanks to the Torah and faith in the Lord.
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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