Ability Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

— Richard Flanagan

There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from…

— Dean Acheson

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Many Americans remain very interested in royal goings-on in general, and not just because of their soap-opera appeal. To a greater degree than any…

— Linda Colley

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

— Lord Randolph Churchill

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

“My conduct, Pugstyles,' said Mr Gregsbury, looking round upon the deputation with gracious magnanimity—'my conduct has been, and ever will be, regulated by a…

— Charles Dickens

We need to provide leadership, stability and confidence to the British people. We cannot indulge in parochial or nativist fantasies.

— Suella Braverman

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity…

— Linda Colley