George V Quotes

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

We have got over our imperial past, and the withdrawal symptoms.

For Carolina once ruined and destroyed, the extermination of her [England's] colonial dependencies will follow.

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

The United States although a superpower was never an empire..

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans 400 years in time and thousands of miles in space; every continent on Earth was directly affected by it.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

When two countries are connected together, like England and her colonies, without being incorporated, the one must necessarily govern; the greater must rule the less; but so rule it, as not to contradict the fundamental principles that are common to both.

Who colonized the other – us or them? Did Algeria colonize France, or vice versa? Did Egypt colonize England, or vice versa? We are the victims...

… and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas

Where is this godly tower of Commonwealth, which the English boasted they would build to overshadow Kings and be another Rome in the West?

Let it be known that war with a colony is war with England.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.