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At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States. -- Hideki Tojo
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal. -- F. Sionil Jose
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view. -- Hideki Tojo
Bio Life Technical's strategy of providing technical due diligence by expert professors from core disciplines and world class experts working with interdisciplinary institutes, such as Imperial College's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will enable a more thorough scientific evaluation of the technology. -- Chris Toumazou
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. -- William Jennings Bryan
My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna. -- Fran Lebowitz
The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States -- Hideki Tojo
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady. -- Florence King
Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. -- David Frum
The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. -- Woodrow Wilson
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me. -- Marc Chagall
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile. -- Hideki Tojo
The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation... -- Yoshijiro Umezu
Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army. -- Vandana Shiva
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce. -- Peter Drucker
The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times. -- Sadao Araki
The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me. -- Bob Hope
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended. -- Sadao Araki
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America. -- Ambrose Bierce
There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details. -- Neal Boortz
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots. -- Joshua A. Norton
Because I'm CGI, [John Swartz] gave me a role of an Imperial pilot in one scene, so I had a day where I was on camera dressed as a black suit and a little cap that they wear. -- Alan Tudyk
[Eva Braun] also stayed with [Adolf Hitler] at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg and a few other places. I was never with her in these places, though my mother was there in Vienna. -- Gretl Braun
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties. -- Homer
Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing. -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view -- Hideki Tojo
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo! -- Frank Beddor
The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success. -- Chuichi Nagumo
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians. -- Edward Gibbon
I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. -- John Green
I decided that there is really some sort of entity that I call Imperial, and I decided to extend it all the way along the California-Mexico border and into Tijuana and then to the Pacific because it all has a similar feeling. -- William T. Vollmann
The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world. -- Susanna Clarke
Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars. -- Emperor Norton
The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on the people's respect and adoration for the Emperor, the Japanese people have stayed united. That is the essence of Japan's national heritage, I believe. -- Yoshiko Sakurai
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. -- Simon Hoggart
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. -- Iain McGilchrist
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march. -- John Williams
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. -- Neil MacGregor
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. -- Bobby Sands
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough. -- Faye Wattleton
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry. -- Elizabeth I
Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase. -- Robbie Williams
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. -- Wole Soyinka
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome. -- John Lothrop Motley
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. -- Queen Elizabeth II
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences. -- F. Sionil Jose
Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase. -- Robbie Williams
To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them. -- Michael Mandelbaum
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. -- Amy Waldman
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests. -- John Amery
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. -- Frank Gaffney
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. -- David Mamet
Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline. -- Martin Jacques
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. -- Walter Russell Mead
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true. -- Robert Browning
The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial. -- Newt Gingrich
What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose. -- Homer
The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either. -- Lydia Lunch
Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial. -- Diana Vreeland
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. -- John Dryden
Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available. -- Walter Brueggemann
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure -- Fanny Burney
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. -- Frances Burney
You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout. -- Allen West
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair. -- Alexander Pope
Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family -- Tacitus
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. -- John Milton
Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state? -- Bill Moyers
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. -- Lucan
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. -- Noam Chomsky
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. -- Richard Flanagan
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. -- Adrian Goldsworthy
The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule. -- Michael Ignatieff
The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send - -- Emily Dickinson
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. -- Felix Morley
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks. -- Charles Stross
Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. -- Majid Khadduri
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. -- Edward Abbey
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb. -- Shane Claiborne
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity, -- Justinian I
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5) -- Edward Said
England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286 -- Margaret Drabble
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status. -- Mahatma Gandhi
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. -- George Bernard Shaw
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at. -- Ezra Pound
We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom. -- Andrew Bacevich
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. -- Ani DiFranco
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. -- Bertrand Russell
Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years. -- Irshad Manji
The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer. -- Niall Ferguson
There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters. -- James A. Millward
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule. -- Olaf Stapledon
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality. -- Philip Neri
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter. -- Alice Corbin Henderson
The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency. -- Edward Kennedy
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are. -- Charles Krauthammer
Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions. -- Vladimir Putin
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. -- Lawton Chiles
All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive. -- Niall Ferguson
I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on. -- Andrew Sullivan
I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever. -- Cornel West
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad. -- Linda Colley
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How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conï¿½icts of today. -- Arundhati Roy
Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier. -- Sherman Alexie
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession. -- Stephen Potter
The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it." -- Tariq Ali
The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden. -- William Blum
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the livedâ?? what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death? -- Louise GluÌ?ck
The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'. -- James C. Scott
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere. -- Stephen Vizinczey

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