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“To thee belongs the rural reign;    Thy cities shall with commerce shine: All thine shall be the subject main,    And every shore it circles thine.      Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;      Britons never will be slaves.”
— James Thomson, "Rule, Britannia!", st. 5, in Alfred, a Masque (1740), act 2
“The British Empire is not a thing to love or to be proud of, but a disgrace and a nuisance, as a domination compounded of fraud, injustice and violence to be scorned by all honest men wherever possible.”
— William Morris, Speech at the International Workers Congresses of Paris, 1889. Quoted in How I Became A Socialist, edited by Owen Holland, Verso Books, London, 2020 (p. 166).
“If we are to receive self-government, we shall have to take it. We shall never be granted self-government. Look at the history of the British Empire and the British nation; freedom-loving as it is, it will not be a party to give freedom to a people who will not take it themselves.”
— Mahatma Gandhi, Speech, (4 February 1916), published in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches (1994), p. 43.
“This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers. We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.”
— Rudyard Kipling, "Hindu Sepoy in France", "Epitaphs of the War", in The Years Between (1919)
“The so-called British Empire was a manifest of the world-around misconception of who ran things, and a disclosure of the popular ignorance of the Great Pirates' absolute world-controlling through their local-stooge sovereigns and their prime ministers, as only innocuously and locally modified here and there by the separate sovereignties' internal democratic processes.”
— Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969), ch. 2
“There’s one country left in the British empire that needs to liberate itself and have its independence day from its own history, and that’s Britain.”
— , "UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga", The Guardian (3 June 2024)

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Not who you're looking for? Others named British Empire: overseas possessions of England and later the United Kingdom

Notable quotes

“To thee belongs the rural reign;    Thy cities shall with commerce shine: All thine shall be the subject main,    And every shore it circles thine.      Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;      Britons never will be slaves.”
— James Thomson, "Rule, Britannia!", st. 5, in Alfred, a Masque (1740), act 2
“The British Empire is not a thing to love or to be proud of, but a disgrace and a nuisance, as a domination compounded of fraud, injustice and violence to be scorned by all honest men wherever possible.”
— William Morris, Speech at the International Workers Congresses of Paris, 1889. Quoted in How I Became A Socialist, edited by Owen Holland, Verso Books, London, 2020 (p. 166).
“If we are to receive self-government, we shall have to take it. We shall never be granted self-government. Look at the history of the British Empire and the British nation; freedom-loving as it is, it will not be a party to give freedom to a people who will not take it themselves.”
— Mahatma Gandhi, Speech, (4 February 1916), published in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches (1994), p. 43.
“This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers. We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.”
— Rudyard Kipling, "Hindu Sepoy in France", "Epitaphs of the War", in The Years Between (1919)
“The so-called British Empire was a manifest of the world-around misconception of who ran things, and a disclosure of the popular ignorance of the Great Pirates' absolute world-controlling through their local-stooge sovereigns and their prime ministers, as only innocuously and locally modified here and there by the separate sovereignties' internal democratic processes.”
— Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969), ch. 2
“There’s one country left in the British empire that needs to liberate itself and have its independence day from its own history, and that’s Britain.”
— , "UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga", The Guardian (3 June 2024)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.