Britain Centuries Quote by Thomas Sowell

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred…

— Thomas Bulfinch

“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way…

— Catharine Arnold

“Just like that. It had been almost seven years since the legions left our shores, having declared the Island of the Mighty sufficiently conquered.…

— Lesley Livingston

“It was the old section of London, the part the Romans had encircled with a wall nearly two thousand years ago. The wall had…

— C.N. Crawford

“In Winston Churchill's words: "We owe London to Rome."34”

— Thomas Sowell

“The Roman Empire necessarily became less Roman as it became more of an Empire; until not very long after Rome gave conquerors to Britain,…

— G. K. Chesterton

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the…

— Linda Colley

“It was no objection to the apostles and their successors, who went among the barbarous Germans and Gauls, and still more barbarous Britons! They…

— William Carey

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed…

— Walter Russell Mead

Many Britons who backed Brexit believed - and believe still - that a U.K. 'freed' from 'Europe' would be able to recover and re-establish…

— Linda Colley

“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