Imperialism Quotes

C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

Mrs. Ernest Ames

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)

Christopher Hitchens

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.