British Quote by John Pilger

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people…

— Winston Churchill

“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

George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed…

— Will Rogers

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as…

— Hermann Goring

“When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for things English…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit…

— Nelson Mandela

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians…

— Linda Colley

“In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact…

— Frantz Fanon

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has…

— Winston Churchill

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the…

— Linda Colley