British Quote by Winston Churchill

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

— Oswald Mosley

“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

“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

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate,…

— Winston Churchill

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering…

— George VI

The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political…

— Simon Schama

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire…

— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

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

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

— Tony Benn

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

— Lord Harlech

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human…

— George W. Bush