Empire

Empire

The term empire derives from the Latin imperium (power, authority). Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples (ethnic groups) united and ruled either by a monarch (emperor, empress) or an oligarchy.

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Famous quotes containing the word empire:

    “On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “To Americans I hardly need to say,—
    “Westward the star of empire takes its way.””
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)