British Quote by Linda Colley

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

— Pat Robertson

“In the early 1600s, for nearly two decades, Virginia and Bermuda were the only English colonies in the New World. Here, for the first…

— Virginia Bernhard

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

— Charley Reese

The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.

— Sadiq Khan

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile…

— Rick Atkinson

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You…

— Wole Soyinka

The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us against the…

— Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire, I think…

— Anna Quindlen

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

— David Duke

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has…

— Valerie Fitzgerald

We, black British, were searching - as the first generation that was born and raised here - for our own identity. We already knew…

— Jazzie B