Patriotism Quote by Alan Riding

“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you…

— Anthony Eden

“THE British foreign minister,”

— Laurent Binet

“diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I”

— Mark Twain

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead - Samson from…

— Paul Xavier Jones

“Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual…

— Lord Paulmerston

“I do not have the words to describe the feeling of when the war isn't foreign anymore.”

— Grace Akon

“Britain, in the memorable phrase of another young State Department officer, “was like a soldier wounded in war who, now that the fighting was…

— Charles L. Mee Jr

“he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen,”

— Walter Scott

“International Relations are too important to be left to the specialists.”

— Karl W. Deutsch