Quotes about British empire

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It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell, Burmese Days
Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact interse — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be ri — Christopher Hitchens, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
So spoke the man whose importance originated in the golden harvest he had reaped with the resistless hand of force, from — Helen Craik, Stella of the North
The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople—those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit — Mark Curtis, Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses
It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a r — Lisa M. Prysock, To Find a Duchess
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing — Ursula K. Le Guin
Wars have been waged over millions of square miles, significantly larger than the British Empire at its peak. Historical — Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One
Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumou — Christopher Hitchens
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me. — Arthur Wellesley
When sin ceases to pay, we have a happy knack of finding out that it is wrong; so after a bit, when Virginia, and Georgi — W. F. Butler
In time of war, under the banner of an enemy recognisable as such, a foreigner from a camp outside the lines, the imperi — A.P. Thornton, The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study on British Power
... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding? — Jane Wilson-Howarth, Snowfed Waters
And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with the English anyhow. Th — E.M. Forster, A Passage to India