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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“When your fathers fixed the place of GOD,
And settled all the inconvenient saints,
Apostles, martyrs, in a kind of Whipsnade,
Then they could set about imperial expansion
Accompanied by industrial development.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“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)