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“the idea of separated powers and of rules governing all the contenders for power became imbedded in British tradition over the centuries.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Some of the smugglers' vessels are former pleasure yachts, hijacked - and never renamed - out of some overdeveloped sense of irony or possibly...sheer…

— Ann Aguirre

“So you’re ex-Royal Navy, right?’ He tensed. ‘How do you know that?’ Lucy pointed at his arm. ‘Cabot wristwatch. It’s a dead giveaway.’ Marc…

— James Swallow

“Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“and we lived in Stuart, Florida, which made the dubious claim of being the Sailfish Capital of the World.”

— Patricia Lockwood

“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden…

— Louis Nowra

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ On Water ]”

— Guy de Maupassant

“British battleships were driven by between 30 and 100 megawatts of power.”

— David Edgerton

We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility…

— David Cameron

British establishment uses "the royal we," as in, "We think this." You hear a lot of that these days. It erroneously suggests that those…

— John Pilger

“There obviously has been a brainwashing in this country of what power should look like.”

— Marc Sandalow

“In order to do this in the most fun, convenient way possible, I realized I needed my own private kingdom, my own small country,…

— Cap'n Fatty Goodlander