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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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...empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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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.
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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.
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