History Quote by Lord Harlech

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire…

— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

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

“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

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

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve…

— Neville Chamberlain

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

— Robert Trout

“Britain is no longer ‘Thatcherite’, though in the aftermath of ‘Brexit’, it may even be worse. The need to temper British imperial nostalgia with…

— Shashi Tharoor

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and…

— Joseph Chamberlain

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

— David Lloyd George