British Quote by Amanda Foreman

From the American Revolution right up to the Second World War, the U.S. was more likely to provoke suspicion among members of the British…

— Linda Colley

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

— Linda Colley

I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

— Charley Reese

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the…

— J. Christopher Herold

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way,…

— J. Christopher Herold

For America, Britain has never been more than a strategic player, and when it suits them to use us, then there's been a rapprochement.…

— Amanda Foreman

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were…

— Michael Morpurgo

“I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has…

— Valerie Fitzgerald

“The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among…

— J. Christopher Herold

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

— Stendhal