Quote by Daniel Hannan Download Open image ““The American,” he wrote, “is the Englishman left to himself.”” — Daniel Hannan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.” — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it,… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country… — Simon Anholt Copy Share Image
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.” — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake,… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“They mean people who speak English and believe in small government, whether in San Francisco, Sligo, or Singapore.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“As well as being tailored to the circumstances of the recipient, charity allows the donor to make a moral choice. There is virtue in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
