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

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

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

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