Ego, not armies, destroy empires.
You want to dismantle an empire? Divide it.
This is where we get into trouble. You’re meant to know only as much as you can handle. When you wander outside of your realm is when we end up fighting.
These two empires that we fight for, they are little more than sandcastles. Only the tides are forever.[to John]
The Empire improves every system it touches. Judge by any metric. Safety, prosperity, trade, opportunity, peace.
Grow your empire further than your power can extend and lose your empire.
Every failed empire has a legion of elite warriors.
The Empire doesn’t play by the rules. They don’t care enough to learn. They don’t have to. You mean nothing to them.[to Nemik]
Our empire is not the only empire. We’ve seen that now.
Long live the Empire.
Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I’m in the empire business.
You want an empire? You’ll have it. You can have everything. All you have to do is come home with me.[to Maya]