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

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The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson

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

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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

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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

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

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