3 Edmund Burke Quotes on Empire

Edmund Burke quotes on empire

79. Deny them [the colonies] this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

81. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

82. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.