British Empire Quotes
British Empire Quote of the day
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
You know, 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.
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.
The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?
It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary.
