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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.

— Billy Hughes

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— William Blake

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

— Pericles

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.

— Sukarno

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

— Michael Mandelbaum

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.

— Robert D. Kaplan

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

— John Malkovich

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.

— Nancy Gibbs

✗Opposing Perspectives

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

— Fidel Castro

The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

— Hugo Chavez

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

— Joseph Sobran