America Quote by Linda Colley

“On their isles of pines in colonial America, White men continued to depict African women as sexually aggressive, shifting the responsibility of their own…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Colonial America was not settled out of a search for religious liberty, but it stumbled onto that principle just in time.”

— Steven K. Green

“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much…

— Linda Colley

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be…

— Elie Wiesel

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in…

— Wilhelm II

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would…

— Ron Paul

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland