Empire Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
If Germany is to become a colonising 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 Ewald Gladstone (1809-198) English prime minister in 1885
With a hero at head, and a nation Well gagged and well drilled and well cowed, And a gospel of war and damnation, Has not Empire a right to be proud?
A. C. Swinburne (1837-1909) English poet, critic
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [the territory] is worth.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complection or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname eincure; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120) Roman historian of the Romans
The British Government in India is like is tooth that is decaying but is still strongly embedded. It is painful, but it cannot be easily pulled out.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Indian prime minister in 1935
All empires die of indigestion.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
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.”
