Bahamas Quote by Craig Ferguson

The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that…

— Margaret Thatcher

Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their freedoms. Had…

— Stan Van Gundy

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable. They…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“After the French and Indian War, the British vacillated about whether to swap all of Canada for the island of Guadeloupe; in the event…

— Ron Chernow

“Their very independence from Great Britain resulted, as Thomas Paine had predicted it would in 1776, from the implausibility that “a Continent [could] be…

— John Lewis Gaddis

The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have a real…

— Sam Wanamaker

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

— Francis Scott Key

Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened.…

— M. S. Golwalkar

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

— Andrew Marr

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came…

— John Lennon