Character Quote by Edward Thomas

“Iraq was already in the grip of a bloody insurgency against British rule. Churchill therefore called a conference in Cairo to hand over a…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

— Edmund Burke

“The decree was largely inspired by proposals made by France and Britain who assisted the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean war (1853-1856) against Russia.…

— Charles River Editors

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base…

— T. E. Lawrence

“Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hears? On…

— T.H. White

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

— Mohammed Morsi

“From the point of view of most of the Arabs, another foreign conqueror, heretic and Western, had come into their land, evicted their Muslim…

— Janet Wallach

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in…

— Chinua Achebe

“Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency…

— Shaun F. Messick

“...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and…

— Walter Scott

“Few politicians observed the developments in Anatolia between 1918 and 1923 with greater interest than Adolf Hitler, who would later profess that in the…

— Robert Gerwarth

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

— William Shakespeare