Britain is at its best when we stand up for the values that we believe in. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers. — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
When countries are in crisis Britain leads the international response. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
“But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being… — Marc Morris Copy Share Image
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just… — Francis Maude Copy Share Image
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
“We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep. But, generation after generation, They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future… — Paul Conroy Copy Share Image
When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon… — Kenneth O. Morgan Copy Share Image
If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people;… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Britain: A nation that keeps a stiff upper lip, takes it on the chin without complaining, plays fair at all times and… — Seán Gearárd McCloskey Copy Share Image
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
“C" is for colonies Rightly we boast that of all the great nations Great Britain has most!” — Mrs. Ernest Ames Copy Share Image
Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.' — Declan Donnelly Copy Share Image
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't. — David Starkey Copy Share Image