Politics Quote by Thomas Sowell

“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large…

— David Christian

“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“In the Victorian era a curious belief was prevalent that sovereign states ought to have governments that were reasonably efficient and solvent.”

— Byron Farwell

“I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew merchants tot…

— Niall Ferguson

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule…

— Gina Miller

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“The English state thus constructed a system, later followed by other European countries, in which the ruler was subject to the law and in…

— Nicholas Wade

“British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism”

— Fareed Zakaria

“the idea of separated powers and of rules governing all the contenders for power became imbedded in British tradition over the centuries.”

— Thomas Sowell

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“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

“At the lower end of the social scale, as well as among the gentry, enterprise and social mobility were part of the pattern in…

— Thomas Sowell