Branches Quote by Samuel Smiles

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in…

— Mitt Romney

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the…

— Mitt Romney

“Whereas in other countries expansion stopped when an initial advantage had been fully exploited, England moved through a succession of new products and new…

— Edward A. Hudson

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

— Chris O'Dowd

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are…

— Goldwin Smith

“England achieved the breakthrough to growth. England’s growth followed from agricultural advances which increased incomes sufficiently that people started to demand more manufactured goods.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them.…

— E.M. Forster

From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war…

— Linda Colley

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an…

— Benjamin Disraeli

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be…

— Rhys Ifans