British Quote by John Boyd Orr

The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war…

— Linda Colley

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

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain…

— Margaret Thatcher

Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from…

— Dean Acheson

Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

— Joseph Conrad

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now…

— John C. Calhoun

“After the British victory against Napoleon, Britain was indisputably the leading global power. The British Empire expanded significantly toward Asia, driven by the advances…

— Charles River Editors