18th century Quote by Simon Schama

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

— Andy Zaltzman

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering…

— George VI

It was the British who began the tradition of parliamentary democracy, now emulated all over the world.

— Suella Braverman

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

— Gordon Brown

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

— William Hamilton

“British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism”

— Fareed Zakaria

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

— Frederick Forsyth

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical…

— James Anthony Froude

“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of 1789 overturned…

— Ronald Carter

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears…

— Henry Charles Carey

I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape it should…

— Clive Lewis

The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better.

— Layla Moran