Imperial Diet means the highest representative assembly in an empire, notably:
- Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire), general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806)
- Reichstag (German Empire), Parliament of the German Empire (1871–1918)
- Reichstag (Weimar Republic), Parliament of the Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
- Reichstag (Nazi Germany), Parliament of Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
- Parliament of Finland
- Parliament of Sweden
- Diet of Japan, convened as the Imperial Diet under the Meiji Constitution (1889–1947)
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“Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“I learned from my two years’ experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one’s necessary food, even in this latitude; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.... Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)