Effort Quote by Albert Bushnell Hart

In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a…

— Linda Colley

The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs -…

— Karen Maitland

“Here is the salient fact which distinguishes the English Revolution from all others: that those who wielded irresistible physical force were throughout convinced that…

— Winston Churchill

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament…

— Mercy Otis Warren

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

“Why did this unique process start in England and why in the seventeenth century? Why did England develop pluralistic political institutions and break away…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to…

— Adam Smith

England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Contrary to the myth that the British Royals were no longer all-powerful, it was common knowledge within Omega and other organizations in the know…

— James Morcan

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The parliamentary democracy we have adopted involves the British perversity of electing a legislature to form an executive: this has created a unique breed…

— Shashi Tharoor