Barriers Quote by Goldwin Smith

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

— Henry J. Heinz

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

— Henri Pirenne

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the…

— Nicola Sturgeon

There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the clearances, and…

— Tony Robinson

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

— Frederick C. Beiser

What we have to do is create the political conditions that are such that the Westminster political parties cannot deny Scotland's voice.

— Humza Yousaf

It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

— Stromae

The final Brexit deal must ensure there is no diminution in Britain's national security or ability to tackle cross-border crime.

— Keir Starmer

Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change almost any law of the land by statutory instrument, if needed, to implement Brexit must be…

— Dominic Grieve

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

— Alistair Darling

In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a…

— Linda Colley