Famous quotes containing the words empire died, empire and/or died:
“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“—I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)