They had been and were, the real Empire-builders who subdued the soil and made it serve human needs, enduring hardships and hunger and cold and bitter discouragements, always with heroism and patience.

And how is it that it has never occurred to any of them that this sort of brotherhood has its value in Empire-building?

(In Rocky Mountain empire magazine (The Denver post) May 02, 1948)

This empire building process was not gradual and directed with scrupulous care to preserve the amenities and niceties of polite social intercourse.

Wipe the wan cheek, deep-lav'd by many a tear; Nature, the triumph foul of horror o'er, Shall raise her frame to scenes of blood no more; Pale recollection shall recall her woes, Again shall paint her agonizing throes: These, o'er the earth thine empire firm shall raise, Unaw'd by war's destructive storms, the bliss of future days.

Nor will anyone who was present in the summer of '98 forget how Sir Edward Chichester stood loyally by Admiral George Dewey, when the German squadron was empire-fishing in the waters of Manila Bay, until our Atlantic fleet had won the battle of Santiago and Admiral Dewey had received reinforcements and, east and west, we were able to look after the Germans.

The "third world," consisting chiefly of European empire fragments, has not consolidated, but after the Bandung Conference of 1955 has consisted of a fragmented Africa and Asia torn by domestic and inter-state conflicts and harried by the persistent intervention of the western powers.

"That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away.

He turned to Austria and said: 'You lay hands on that little fellow and I will tear your ramshackle empire limb from limb.'

Our road-making and our bridge-building, our empire-making and our diplomacy, they are all fashioned in the same manner.

"Westward the star of empire moves.

In his half-compacted empire order was still only maintained by his actual presence and the sheer force of his personal authority, as he hurried from country to country to quell a rising in Gascony or a revolt in Galloway, to wage war in Wales, to finish the conquest of Britanny or of Ireland, to order the administration of Poitou or Normandy.

Finally, when he came to the senate-house and was about to sacrifice to Janus before the entrance, all bawled out as if by preconcerted arrangement, terming him empire-plunderer and parricide.

Well might the weakness of our empire sink Before such foes of more than human force: Some pow'r invisible, from heav'n or hell, Conducts their armies, and asserts their cause.

Not many years after Peter's death, they so overawed the Empress Anne that she thrust into the codes of the empire statutes which allowed the nobles to sell serfs apart from the soil.

In the Roman empire stoicism flourished at a period which, beyond almost any other, seemed most unfavourable to such teaching.

After that a Chippendale settee for a hundred and forty dollars and an "Empire table with 1830 base" for ninety-three dollars seemed the merest trifles of this insane outbreak.

Tradition says it was the capital of an empire ages before the great Macedonian invaded India, and its origin is lost in the mists of antiquity.

With Germain, the empire-wrecker, gone, Carleton would doubtless have served under any cabinet, for no government could have done without him.

He saw a dressing table, an Empire bed covered with green-figured silk, a pleasant rug on the floor, and, just as he had gathered an impression of delightful femininity from these furnishings, the girl turned from the lamp on the dressing table, and he sawnot Caroline Smith, but a bronze-haired beauty, as different from Bill Gregg's lady as day is from night.

Echion one, at Pallas's command, Let fall the guiltless weapon from his hand; And with the rest a peaceful treaty makes, Whom Cadmus as his friends and partners takes: So founds a city on the promised earth, And gives his new Boeotian empire birth.

Shall Thine empire cease? VI.