Empire Quotes

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Rudyard Kipling

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William McKinley

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Sir John Robert Seeley

How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

Lord Rosebery