Britain Quote by David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

— Lord Harlech

“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

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve…

— Neville Chamberlain

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve…

— Neville Chamberlain

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

— David Lloyd George

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and…

— Joseph Chamberlain

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

“Britain is no longer ‘Thatcherite’, though in the aftermath of ‘Brexit’, it may even be worse. The need to temper British imperial nostalgia with…

— Shashi Tharoor