No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth;… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children. — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
“I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . .… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
“Britain: A nation that keeps a stiff upper lip, takes it on the chin without complaining, plays fair at all times and… — Seán Gearárd McCloskey Copy Share Image
“While it cannot be denied that the state's enhanced role in the mid-twentieth century necessitated a larger bureaucracy, or that the officials… — Simon Collier Copy Share Image
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“By 1912, the British Empire had a population of more than 440 million people, of whom only 10 percent lived in the British Isles.41” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“One man who did not understand was the New Zealanders’ legendary commander, Lieutenant General Bernard C. Freyberg. English-born but raised in New… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
