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Every empire eventually falls.

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

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

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.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

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.

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.