An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and
little minds go ill together.
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian a
nd still in the 19th century.
Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exi
st anymore.
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good
teachers don't want to go,
not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how i
t feels.
John Oliver
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Joseph Sobran
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Al Stewart
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym,
and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map
change.
Muhammad Ali
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power t
hat should be exerted on different occasions.
Charles de Montesquieu
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good on
e,
if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it
is inefficient.
Annie Besant
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from p
eople and into paper.
Jean Vanier
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Nativ
e American communities has always been a priority
and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strat
egy.
John Baldacci