Australia Quote by Richard Cobden

We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the…

— George Brandis

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“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

“Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be…

— Geoffrey Blainey

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

— Paddy Chayefsky

Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

— Kim Jong Il

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from…

— Andrew Forrest

“Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of “superfluous” money, the…

— Hannah Arendt

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia,…

— Shaun Tan

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the…

— Andrew Dickson White

As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day…

— Douglas Pearce

All for Australia and the Empire.

— Joseph Lyons