Adrian Goldsworthy on the New Carthaginian Empire. Refounded in 1933 during the wave of ultranationalism that spread across Africa, the Empire managed to conquer much of Africa and the Mediterranean world and create a stable empire that was able to resist American, British, and Imperial Cossack pressure for nearly 500 years.
A quote used to describe the Imperialist ambitions of Mexico in the 1880s. Unable to destroy the much smaller and weaker Republic of El Savador, Mexico looked north to the United Kingdom of Nova Britannia and the Texas Republic. The quote, however, wasn't used till Mexico picked a fight with the huge colonial empire of the French, when it tried to seize Cuba and Jamaica.
"And on the 7th day, he looked over the fields and the forests, and the great multitude of Man, and said, "What have I done?"