Britain Quotes

• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

  America, Political, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What Britain needs is an iron lady.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Iron, Needs, Iron Lady

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• What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

  David Lloyd George

  Country, Hero, Firefighter

  Speech at Wolverhampton, 23 Nov. 1918, in The Times 25 Nov. 1918

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, United States, Needs

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• Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Country, Ties, Today

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• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Writing, Class

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• Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

  Jonathan Coe

  Littles, Contemporary, Fascinating

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• I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

  Anne Stevenson

  Married, Young, Cambridge

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• The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Japan, Germany, Roles

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Thinking, Play, Fans

  "Ivanisevic gets ready to bow out", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2004.

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• I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

  Peter Mandelson

  Attitude, Europe, Half

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• We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

  Francis Maude

  Needs, Today, Shows

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• In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  May, Empires, Way

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• In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

  Anthony Sampson

  America, Journalism, Newspapers

  1965 TheAnatomy of BritainToday, ch.9.

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• Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

  Ludwig Erhard

  Europe, Torso

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• By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Ends, Mess

  "The Road to Discontent: Britain in the '70s". PBS Interveiw, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2000.

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

  Karen Armstrong

  Country, Intellectual, Looks

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

  Tom Sizemore

  Fans, Mail, Great Britain

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• The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

  George W. Norris

  War, Great Day, Firsts

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• Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

  Tony Benn

  Suffering, Today, Obsolescence

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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Our World, History, Evil

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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• After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

  George Harrison

  Swings, Tin, Pieces

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• I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Dad, Children, Nightmare

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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