Britain Quote by John Strachan

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain…

— Thomas Day

And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies,…

— Samuel Adams

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are…

— Thomas Paine

“Through the same plan of a conformity to nature in our artificial institutions, and by calling in the aid of her unerring and powerful…

— Edmund Burke

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

— John Quincy Adams

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the…

— Richard Henry Lee

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire…

— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

— Thomas Hardy

Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that…

— Mercy Otis Warren

“Our government came into existence through divine guidance. The inspiration of the Lord rested upon the patriots who established it, and inspired them through…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

— Julia Ward Howe