There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
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.
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.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Every empire eventually falls.
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
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.
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.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.