The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable but the United States does not control directly or indirectly the politics and economics of other societies as empires have always done save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political economic and social structure.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Look back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future too.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Jordan has a strange haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.