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Speech · Political speech

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Joseph Chamberlain

1904

★ 1.8

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

David Ormsby Gore

The New York Times · 1962

★ 1.8

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

1881

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

The Guardian · 1962

★ 1.9

Historical literature

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations in opposition to their inclination and interest.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781

★ 1.9

Political literature

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism · 1917

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 3.5

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

1772

★ 3.6

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Heart of Darkness · 1899

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

1943

★ 3.8

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract · 1762

★ 3.9

Essay · Political literature

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Shooting an Elephant · 1936

★ 3.9

Take up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

Rudyard Kipling

The White Man's Burden · 1899

★ 7.1