Empire Building Quotes

“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”
― Robert E. Lee

“This time they're making sure they can hold what they take: conquest is always easier than subjugation.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Minimal damage, but huge impact,” Mom said. “Something that some empire builders, or Emperors, fail to think about when they charged and conquered their neighbors. Not only were warfare expensive and costly, but the damage to the land and massive deaths were something the winning side of the war would inherit as well.” - Amazon Lee Adventures in China by Kira G. and Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Kira G.

“Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relationships. In such quarters, the RAF concept looks less like an innovative approach to global risk management than yet another military effort to replace diplomats with soldiers.”
― Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

“You strike me as a good man, Commander, but where the good are put in charge of the wicked, empires will be destroyed. It is when the wicked are given oversight of the good, does empire become strong.”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk