"Britain had a great empire once. They just marched into places and said, 'You, you and you — fuck off, we're having tiffin.'"
— Dylan Moran, Like Totally
"In India there was power — the power of the white man over the black — and power is a fine thing to have. Then there was ease, and time for any amount of sport, and good company, and none of the restrictions of home. You could live as you pleased, and lord it among the niggers...And there were as many women as you could wish for...In my whole service I never made half as much in pay as I got from India in loot — but that is another story."
— Flashman Book 1.
"Men of America! thank heaven (thank your own strong arms) for having escaped from the corrupt legislation of this island, that floats upon waters like a plague-stricken hull of a stately wreck, within its death fraught ribs houses a people of paupers, groaning beneath the immeasurable wealth they have created but enjoy not. At its doors die a million human beings in a land, lashed like a conquered prey to the British Crown, that drags it down to famine and pestilence...On its colonies the sun never sets, but the blood never dries. In mechanical power it has outstripped the world, but that power it employs to displace labour, and starve unwilling idlers. Every factory is more corrupt than a barracks, more painful than a prison, and more painful than a battle field. Its commerce touches every shore, but their ports have been opened by artillery, and are held by murder. Abroad, its traders play the pirate; at home the journeyman is cheated by the apprentice, the apprentice by the master, the small dealer by the wholesale-dealer, the customer by both, and the Government cheats all."
— Ernest Jones, English Chartist Leader, 1851.
"And may I ask you, Europeans, what country you have ever raised to better conditions? Wherever you have found weaker races, you have exterminated them by the roots, as it were. You have settled on their lands and they are gone forever. What is the history of your America, your Australia and New Zealand, your Pacific Islands and South Africa? Where are those aboriginal races there today? They are all exterminated, you have killed them outright, as if they were wild beasts. It is only where you have not the power to do so, and there only, that other nations are still alive."
— Swami Vivekananda
"You all might think that there will be a day when America will leave Nicaragua alone, but I am here to tell you, flat out, that that day will never happen, because it is our destiny to be here. It is our destiny to control you people. So no matter how much you fight, no matter what you think, we'll be back, time and time again. By the bones of our American dead in Rivas and Granada, I swear that we will never abandon the cause of Nicaragua. Let it occupy your every waking and sleeping thought. From the future, if not the present, we may expect a just judgement."
—William Walker, Walker
