Great britain Quotes

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

— Queen Elizabeth II

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

— Wendell Willkie

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

— Robert Menzies

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.

— John Surtees

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

— David Miliband

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

— Layla Moran

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a…

— Jimmy Carter

“C" is for colonies Rightly we boast that of all the great nations Great Britain has most!”

— Mrs. Ernest Ames

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

— David Lloyd George

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day…

— Anonymous

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's…

— Jonathan Krohn

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their…

— Winston Churchill

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

— Cindy Sheehan

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould…

— Thomas Jefferson

From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and…

— Theobald of Bec

“This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really…

— Todd McFarlane

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people…

— Stuart Hall

Our allies, Great Britain, Australia, Israel, some of the strongest militaries in the world, allow transgender people to serve openly and have…

— Allyson Robinson

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance…

— John Bright

Our weather patterns are mercurial. What you must remember about Great Britain is we have a uniquely temperate climate not shared by…

— Roddy Llewellyn

It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces…

— Peter Padfield

When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William…

— George Mason

It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked…

— Roger Glover

This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American…

— Gordon S. Wood

I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go…

— Thomas D'Arcy McGee

The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be…

— Alexander Hamilton

Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not…

— Linda Colley

Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined…

— Michael Foot

It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reason with Adolf Hitler in good faith. Now,…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

I never, ever imagined leaving Great Britain.

— Dan Smith

“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.”

— Winston Churchill

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation,…

— Nicky Gumbel

You always want to test yourself at a high level, and I would be proud to represent Great Britain.

— Jack Rodwell

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

— Aasif Mandvi

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

— Tom Hanks

“Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.”

— Bill Bryson