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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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.
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
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.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.