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en The British Empire was at its peak. How could there be anything wrong with a society that was so brilliantly successful?

en It's a crazy society now. It's the richest society ever and yet people are overworked. There's more unemployment, more crime, more confusion, more broken marriages. This is a breakdown. Every culture breaks down. Every society breaks down, whether it's Rome, Spain, the British Empire. The people in charge probably didn't get it until they had their heads chopped off.
  Jerry Brown

en At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire. Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain.

en At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire, ... Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain.

en He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction. For someone who is British, the fish have a certain kind of resonance. They were brought by functionaries of the (British) Empire. You feel like you are following in the footsteps of adventurers of previous generations.

en I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.

en [While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp.] There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

en Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

en All the countries that once belonged to the British Empire have Thwaites & Reed clocks. They're everywhere.

en I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire
  David Lloyd George

en I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire
  Winston Churchill

en The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
  William Blake

en There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States. [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

en I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring [knighthood].
  Steven Spielberg

en Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, 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
  Winston Churchill


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