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

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

An empire is an immense egotism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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