Britain Quotes

700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors

The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this:… — Wesley Clark
Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britainâ€™s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to… — George Osborne
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down Londonâ€™s mall for Queen Victoriaâ€™s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain… — Mark Steyn
Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw… — Wolfgang Schauble
If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant.… — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that weâ€™ve undertaken… — Paul Romer
If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down,… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do — Ed Miliband
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having… — Josiah Strong
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the… — Walter Russell Mead
Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport â€” in order that other people will travel on the buses… — John Gummer
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain… — Simon Jenkins
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. — Jacques Delors
Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in… — Mark Steyn
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the… — Winston Churchill
I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain. — Bill Bryson
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons. — Neil Kinnock
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just… — Neil Kinnock
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. — Alistair Cooke

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