Empire and Imperialism: Europe. Few subjects have generated as much controversy as that of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because of the term's pejorative connotations, even attempting to define it causes difficulties.
Edmund Burke. From Conservapedia. Edmund Burke (born January 12, 1729 in Dublin, died July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, an orator, and a leading conservative political theorist who is still widely read and continue to shape conservative attitudes.
Here is our only national security from ruin; a security upon which no man in his senses would venture a shilling of his fortune. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) Edmund Burke. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.