Empire

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. – Dean Acheson

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. – Aristotle

Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites. – John Betjeman

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. – Joseph Chamberlain

An empire is an immense egotism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind. – William Ewart Gladstone

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. – William Morris Hughes

How is the Empire? – King George V

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. – Rudyard Kipling

Take up the White Mans burden — send forth the best ye breed — go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. – Rudyard Kipling

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. – William McKinley

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. – Sir John Robert Seeley

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain. – Joseph R. Sizoo

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. – Adam Smith

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low. – Virgil