“The sun never sets on the British Empire...well, the sun never sets on my asshole.”— James Merendino, Stevo, Matthew Lillard, imdb.com
“I’ve always liked America because it’s...eager. Whereas the British are resentful. They still haven’t gotten over losing India. The British get on my tits all the time.”— Lemmy Kilmister, theguardian.com
“Ghana was a particularly relevant example for us subjects in the remaining colonies and dominions of the British Empire. There was a growing confidence, not just a feeling, that we would do just as well parting ways with Her Majesty’s empire. If Ghana seemed more effective, as some of our people lik…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I wanted to conquer Rhodesia because I truly believe that Africa would be happier, richer and safer as part of the British Empire. People say that this empire-building was all about ‘taking’ and ‘stealing’: but life in Rhodesia was very good – even for the people we conquered.”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“Personally, I’ve never killed anyone in my life. I’ve never even shot a lion! But when I hear that people are resisting British rule, what am I supposed to say to my soldiers?”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is p…”— Cecil Rhodes, pages.uoregon.edu
“I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-S…”— Cecil Rhodes, pages.uoregon.edu
“Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes.”— Cecil Rhodes, pages.uoregon.edu
“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where t…”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see th…”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“You know, the Brits had a way of—running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.”— Pat Robertson, cbsnews.com