British empire Quote by Charles River Editors

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II,…

— Noam Chomsky

Britain is a development superpower.

— Penny Mordaunt

But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“The India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval world.”

— Shashi Tharoor

“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

“I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew merchants tot…

— Niall Ferguson

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

— Andrew Mitchell

“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the…

— Charles Emmerson

“When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.”

— Prem Kishore

“IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE TWO NATIONS. ONE WAS A vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive…

— Alex von Tunzelmann

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

“There had previously, such as in Rome and the Netherlands, been growth over one or two centuries but this earlier growth was based on…

— Edward A. Hudson