Britain Quotes
700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors
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Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For…
— Harry S. Truman
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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
— Gordon Brown
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In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.
— Edward Leigh
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
— David Lloyd George
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media…
— Frances O'Grady
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The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter…
— Tony Blair
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... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any…
— Franz Halder
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[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such…
— Bill Bryson
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The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
— Thomas Paine
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During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a…
— Adolf Galland
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
— Eamon de Valera
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with…
— Danny Boyle
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It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to…
— H.G. Wells
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Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It…
— John Lennon
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
— Dean Acheson
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My goal is to have a Firm Britain.
— Fern Britton
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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through…
— Gordon Brown
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Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.
— Gordon Brown
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Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
— Gordon Brown
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I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I…
— Gordon Brown
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We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it…
— Gordon Brown
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The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror,…
— Unknown Author
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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
— Aneurin Bevan
Who Wrote These Britain Quotes
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