Action Quote by Harold MacMillan

A thousand years of uninterrupted British sovereignty has taught us one thing. If change isn't allowed to be a process, it becomes an event.

— Penny Mordaunt

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my Government will be a 'soft touch' in the Community. In…

— Margaret Thatcher

Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.

— Ann Widdecombe

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

— Barbara Tuchman

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community.…

— Margaret Thatcher

As we leave the E.U., some have questioned whether this is a signal of Britain's retreat into isolation. They could not be more wrong.

— Gavin Williamson

During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what…

— Thomas Jefferson

Westminster has let the whole country down for many years.

— Dominic Cummings

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either…

— Nick Clegg

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…

— Winston Churchill

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

— William Hague

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

— Salman Rushdie