American Quote by Linda Colley

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

— Norman Tebbit

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

— Ann Coulter

Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish…

— Tariq Ali

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

— Sydney Smith

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

— Walter Scott

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland.

— Sharleen Spiteri

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

— Arthur Balfour

I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the…

— Russell Freedman

My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every…

— Kevin Kwan

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

— Nicola Sturgeon