Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If you steal from the thieves, can they call the cops! If you heist from the blackmarket, is it really a crime!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A society which should have members in every part of the British Empire working with one object and one idea we should… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant.… — William Joynson-Hicks Copy Share Image
“The QSMV Dominion Monarch was launched in 1938 to be a luxury passenger liner. Designed with refrigerated cargo holds, she was built… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
My parents emigrated to the United Kingdom from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s. They were born during the British Empire and… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
The loss of the American colonies was the first time the process of British empire building had been put significantly into reverse,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Let us form the same kind of society a Church for the extension of the British Empire. — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Some Americans are under the grossly mistaken impression that because we violently and triumphantly unyoked ourselves from the British Empire oh so… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“the Bengali intellectual and author of the bestselling Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), with its cringe-worthy dedication to the British empire… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
