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We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. — Oswald Mosley
The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814. — Unknown Author
I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I… — Marcus Mumford
The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so. — Unknown Author
We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists. — Patrick Henry
The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
British girls are as temperamental as Americans. — Ivor Novello
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British… — Arthur Conan Doyle
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into… — Winston Churchill
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have… — William Whipple
There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . .… — Steven Morrissey
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting… — Christopher Hitchens
We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there… — David Ben-Gurion
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is — Russell Baker
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. — Lawrence Durrell
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation… — Winston Churchill
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the… — John Burgoyne
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies… — Sean Lemass
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
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 British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the… — Edmund Morgan
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal.… — Simon Schama
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that… — Simon Schama

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