Beast 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

“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the…

— Charles Emmerson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like…

— Doris Lessing

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

— John Oliver

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

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

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The British nation is unique, in that they are the only nation that like to be told how bad things are...

— Winston Churchill

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not…

— Henry David Thoreau