British Empire Quotes

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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African… — John Henrik Clarke
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The… — Adolf Hitler
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. — Pat Buchanan
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the… — Neville Chamberlain
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. — Karl Marx
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some… — Winston Churchill
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. — Steven Spielberg
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. — Kesha
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any… — Franz Halder
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all… — Ken Loach
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can — Stafford Cripps
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying… — James Connolly
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular… — June Jordan
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the… — John Burgoyne
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,… — Simon Schama
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for… — Anne-Marie Duff
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion… — Winston Churchill
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of… — Winston Churchill
One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be… — Winston Churchill

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