Empire State

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or state:

“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)