British empire Quote by Niall Ferguson

“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

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

“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

“What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions.”

— Thomas Sowell

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

Britain in the 19th century was two things simultaneously; the hub of the largest empire on earth and the greatest manufacturing and trading nation…

— David Olusoga

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

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America,…

— Fidel Castro

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

In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands…

— Cecil Rhodes

“After the British victory against Napoleon, Britain was indisputably the leading global power. The British Empire expanded significantly toward Asia, driven by the advances…

— Charles River Editors