Britain Quotes

700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind… — Mark Foley
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent,… — Winston Churchill
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood. — Joseph Stalin
I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have her (Britain) say… — Unknown Author
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the… — Eamon de Valera
Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was… — David McCullough
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg
Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial… — Thomas Sowell
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency,… — David Starkey
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and… — Unknown Author
We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again. — Margaret Thatcher
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy,… — Simon Schama
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of… — Noam Chomsky
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe… — Jonathan Coe
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves:… — Jonathan Coe
When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests. — Paul Cornell
No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really… — Jon Ronson
The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such… — John Guillebaud
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson

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