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- The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to…
- We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
- The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!
- We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.…
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe…
- It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that…
- Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State,…
- Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature.…
- The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out…
- Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and…
- These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some…
- The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
- They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would…
- There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril…
- By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into…
- 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…
- If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion…
- I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of…
- One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be…
- It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered…
- I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten…
- More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid…
- I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
- The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese…
- I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.
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- 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
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. — Gerry Adams
- I love British humor. It's just so - surreal. — Beck
- The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. — Tony Benn
- On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie
- All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No… — Sade Adu
- I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have… — Orlando Bloom
- But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was… — Bono
- We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a… — Richard Branson
- We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very… — Richard Branson
- The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on… — Louise Brown