"'It's no wonder this region gets jumpy about the Chinese...'", Mail on Sunday, 13 November 2005, p. 8.
Entry in private journal referring to an incident in which he had to fly in business class while leading politicians flew in first class.
2000s
“It is the end of the British Empire.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Remark to Harold Nicolson (22 September 1938) after Neville Chamberlain flew to Godesberg to meet Hitler, quoted in Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1930-1964 (London: Penguin, 1980), p. 134
The 1930s
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, CNN, December 2, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTj3STZqviY <br class="br">2000s, 2006-2009
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 ( full text https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1941-1945-war-leader/the-price-of-greatness-is-responsibility, audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESiuSi8Qp9U). <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)
“The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 891
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Henrik Ibsen Emperor and Galilean
Emperor and Galilean (1873), as quoted by Lester B. Pearson in his address on accepting the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1957) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1957/pearson-acceptance.html
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
4 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses
1790s
