British Quote by Niall Ferguson

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

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

— Steven Wright

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

— George A. Moore

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels…

— Christopher Koch

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering…

— George VI

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million…

— Saul David

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

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

Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

— Tim Buck

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been…

— Simon Schama

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

— Kevin Spacey

“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”

— Niall Ferguson