Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British… — Philip French Copy Share Image
I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I have been told by people close to Trump that "Brexit Britain" is the only foreign policy issue that interests him, because… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I think Brexit's going to be a wonderful thing for Britain. I think when it irons out, you're gonna have your own… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog… — John Major Copy Share Image
There's a real culture of watching television in Britain that there isn't in other countries. Because we have the BBC, which everyone… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“New York will always seem more real than anything Britain has to offer. It is strange that, although the majority of British… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer.… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My parents were immigrants from Pakistan. My father has passed away now, but my father and mother were very proud of Britain,… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did a series in Britain years ago called 'Skins,' and I remember my little sister telling me that I had a… — Ben Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image