Quotes on Great Empires

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.