All great empires die from within.
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Every empire eventually falls.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
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.
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
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