I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to…

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would…

— Winston Churchill

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all…

— Winston Churchill

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

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

— Karl Marx

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong walked on…

— Christopher Titus

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

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these…

— Malcolm X

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

— Steven Wright

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering…

— George VI

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

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

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

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

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment…

— Salman Rushdie