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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

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.

Every empire eventually falls.

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.