Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The first thing that strikes the historian, as he surveys the written records of the Anglo-Saxons, is that they were a litigious people.”

— Daniel Hannan

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential…

— Josiah Strong

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

— Stromae

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and…

— Raymond Chandler

I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is…

— Cecil Rhodes

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all,…

— Thomas More

“They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life. They possess…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now,…

— Hilary Mantel