Edward Luce Quotes

It is our manifest destiny to lead and rule all nations.

Britain’s governments in the 1920s again and again found themselves confronting the painful fact that the United States was a power unlike any other. It had emerged, quite suddenly, as a novel kind of ‘super-state’, exercising a veto over the financial and security concerns of the other major states of the world”.

We are the greatest nation in the world.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

If we show ourselves as weak, we lose.... In the end, we want to lead the Muslim world. We can only do that with our heads held high.

See, I have taken England with both my hands

Americans tend to see U.S. primacy as beneficial to both their country and the rest of the world.

Here is a deep layer of messianic consciousness in the mind of America. We never dreamed that we would have as much political power as we possess today; nor for that matter did we anticipate that the most powerful nation on earth would suffer such an ironic refutation of its dreams of mastery.

There is nothing like the quiet power of example.

There is not a man here [in Congress] who does not feel four hundred percent bigger in 1900—bigger intellectually, bigger, hopefully, bigger patriotically that he as a citizen of a country that has become a world power.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

Europe is perhaps the first example in history of a non-dominant world power.

To become a successful hegemon, it helps to be both very rich and very big.

In all of our actions, we must seek to be living examples of the changes we wish to see in the world. By walking the path, we make the path visible.

America has been dominant in the last 200 years, China has been dominant in 1800 of the last 2000 years.

Power is always temporary.

You never can say too much in praise of your country and its inhabitants. Two nations in Europe are really almost ridiculous in their own exaggerated praises of themselves; these are the English and the French.

Dominion must naturally follow Property.

Great measures are always rested on small precedents.

History teaches that the rise of new great powers often triggers major global conflict.

I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in in Greek exceptionalism.

Americans like to think of their country as the most powerful in the world, and so it has been for three-quarters of a century. But being the most powerful is a far cry from being omnipotent.