British empire Quote by Thomas Sowell

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain…

— Margaret Thatcher

“Thirty million, mostly fools. [When asked the population of England]”

— Thomas Carlyle

“In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London. Only the steady influx of ambitious provincials and Protestant refugees…

— Bill Bryson

“Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced—an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6…

— Ryan Hackney

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity…

— Linda Colley

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

“Irish demographics reveal two startling facts: There are around 70 million people worldwide who claim Irish descent, and Ireland today has barely half the…

— Ryan Hackney

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and…

— H. G. Wells

Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear…

— Peter Hitchens

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

“1950, Britain's share was down to 3 percent and that of the United States was 82 percent.”

— Thomas Sowell