Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
‘No: the gods wish besides pumpkins [eaten by Carlyle’s “niggers”] that spices and valuable products be grown in their West Indies; this much they have declared in so making the West Indies: infinitely more they wish, that industrious men occupy their West Indies, not indolent twolegged cattle however “happy” over their abundant pumpkins!
  Both these things, we may be assured, the immortal gods have decided upon, passed their eternal Act of Parliament for: and both of them, though all terrestrial Parliaments and entities oppose it to the death, shall be done.
 Quashee, if he will not help in bringing-out the spices will get himself made a slave again (which state will be a little less ugly than his present one), and with beneficent whip, since other methods avail not, will be compelled to work.’ (“The Nigger Question”, 1849; quoted in Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, Chatto & Windus 1993, p.122.)

Ernest Renan (1823-1892)
‘The regeneration of the inferior or degenerate races by the superior races is part of the providential order of things for humanity. [...]
  Nature has made a race of workers, the Chinese race, who have wonderful manual dexterity and almost no sense of honour; govern them with justice, levying from them, in return for the blessing of such a government, an ample allowance for the conquering race, and they will be satisfied; a race of tillers of the soil, the Negro; treat him with kindness and humanity, and all will be as it should; a race of masters and soldiers, the European race. [...]
  The life at which our workers rebel would make a Chinese or a fellah happy, as they are not military creatures in the least. Let each one do what he is made for, and all will be well.’ (La Réforme intellectualle et morale; quoted in Aimé Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism, NY: Monthly Review Press 1972, pp.9-25; rep. in Patrick Williams & Laura Chrisman, ed., & intro., Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: A Reader, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1993, pp.172-80; here p. 175.)

Winston Churchill (1974-1965)
‘I do not agree that the dog in a manger as the final right to the manger, even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, a more wordly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.’ (Speaking in 1937; quoted in Arundhati Roy, The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, London: Flamingo, 2004, pp.24-25.)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
‘The sacred duties which civilised nations owe to the independence and nationality of each other, are not binding towards those to whom nationality and independence are certain evil, or at best a questionable good.’ (Quoted in Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, 1993, p.96.)