Quotes about Britain

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It’s so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people th — Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds
It is important to demonstrate to the unfree world that one of the privileges of democracies is to enjoy freedom of trav — Harriet Atkinson, The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you. — Benjamin Disraeli
This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-rem — Christopher Hitchens
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is oft — Charlie Brooker
Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be ri — Christopher Hitchens, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score pe — Andy Zaltzman
This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barba — Mark Gevisser
That day -- Monday, 25 February 1980 -- unfolded, in the context of British politics, much like any other day. Governmen — Graham McCann, A Very Courageous Decision: The Inside Story of Yes Minister
She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absor — Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolen — Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today — Gillian Hovell, 'Visiting the Past'
When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor fro — Prem Kishore, India: An Illustrated History
Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim Lea — Prem Kishore, India: An Illustrated History
And immediately we rushed like horses, wild with the knowledge of this song, and bolted into a startingly loud harmony: — Austin Clarke, Amongst Thistles and Thorns
There was something indomitable about Maria – like Britannia. He’d heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthqu — Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's an — Kamand Kojouri
He had spent much of his childhood perched on the coast, with the taste of salt in the air: this was a place of woodland — Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. — Ringo Starr
England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. — Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark