British empire Quote by Cecil Rhodes

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole…

— Cecil Rhodes

To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of…

— Cecil Rhodes

It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier…

— Irvine Welsh

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies…

— Manly Hall

From the American Revolution right up to the Second World War, the U.S. was more likely to provoke suspicion among members of the British…

— Linda Colley

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

Some Americans are under the grossly mistaken impression that because we violently and triumphantly unyoked ourselves from the British Empire oh so many years…

— Mary Katharine Ham

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

We need to provide leadership, stability and confidence to the British people. We cannot indulge in parochial or nativist fantasies.

— Suella Braverman

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate,…

— Winston Churchill

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

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