In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the…

It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were…

— Edward Gibbon

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What…

— Peter Greenaway

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been…

— Simon Schama

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million…

— Saul David

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like…

— Doris Lessing

Happy Independence Day to Pakistan! On this day sixty-six years ago the country gained sovereignty from the British Empire.

— Anonymous

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and…

— Joseph Chamberlain

A nationally known advertising man wrote me theother day ... to suggest that we tell the truth, i.e., that we are not concerned with…

— Anonymous

“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's why the…

— Abhijit Naskar

Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

— Tim Buck

“People still said that “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire,” even though the Commonwealth was starting to come apart. In spite of…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

England are still the only difference in the world was the first British Empire were slaves of the slaves of today's English language

— Mak_786

“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799) Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of…

— Abhijit Naskar

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden