I tell you as gezegde

 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

 What I say was a horrendous mistake was Neville Chamberlain's policy of handing war guarantees to Poland he had no intention of keeping. That led directly to the Hitler-Stalin pact, to the annihilation of Poland, the overrunning of Western Europe, the death of the British Empire, ... Fox News Sunday.
  Pat Buchanan

 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.

 All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

 I have every reason to believe that the British are right about this. I trust the British on this issue. The British are operating in the south, they know the situation there.

 [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...?

 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.

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

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

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

 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

 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...?

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

 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

 It's my grandfather's MBE, which stands for Member of the British Empire. He was awarded this by the Queen of England for his work as a war photographer in the second world war,
  Russell Crowe


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