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Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallan

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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I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. – John Betjeman

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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman

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Peoples backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. – John Betjeman

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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

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

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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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