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British Quotes by Simon Schama
- 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.…
- 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…
- Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,…
- In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just…
- The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and…
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- Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for… — Duke of Wellington
- I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your… — Rajneesh
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill
- All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years… — Ludwig von Mises
- There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe