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"To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine: All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles thine. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."
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British EmpireAs we study [the British Empires] destiny, we are bound to think of it — British Empire
"As we study [the British Empires] destiny, we are bound to think of it less as a human achievement than as an instrument of Divine Providence for the promotion of the progress of mankind."
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The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and colonisation attempts by Scotland during the 17th century. At its height in the 19th and early 20th
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"[I]f our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made."
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"It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is—the determination to maintain the Empire of England."
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"We are trustees for the British Empire. We have received that trust with all its strength, all its glory, all its traditions; and the one thing we have to care for is that we pass them untarnished to our successors."
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"For southern wind and east wind meet Where, girt and crowned by sword and fire, England with bare and bloody feet Climbs the steep road of wide empire."
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"In this vast empire, on which the sun never sets, and whose bounds nature has not yet ascertained, one great superintending and controuling dominion must exist somewhere; and where can that dominion reside with so much dignity, propriety, and safety, as in the British legislature?"
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