John Quincy Adams Quotes | Westward the star of empire takes its way....

"Westward the star of empire takes its way."

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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

— Thomas Carlyle

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

— Edward Gibbon

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