An empire is an immense egotism. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

An empire is an immense egotism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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

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

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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

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