Republished: January 1989, Paperback, ISBN -679-72019-7, 704 pages See also. for(var i=0; i Ancients Quotes Page 44 Part 2 of the ancients quotations list about prehistoric and antiquity sayings citing Confucius, Frederick Lenz and Frederick Lenz captions Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single politician, the U.S. government remains a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us., In America we say if anyone gets hurt, we will ban it for everyone everywhere for all time. Rebellions and attacks are also one of the main reasons for an empire to lose control. I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever. Jan 14, 2014. What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?, After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. But like empires of old - from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British - even the largest do fall.