liquidation quotes

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Speech at the Mansion House, London,10 Nov.

   The decorations are likethose of the embassyof a nation about to go into voluntary liquidation.

- Colin MacInnes
England, Half English,'SeeYou  At Mabel's'.