Famous quotes containing the words empire died, empire and/or died:
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“Yet
Ere the season died a-cold
Borne upon a zephyr’s shoulder
Irose through the aureate sky”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)