British Government Quotes

• Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.

  Nicholson Baker

  Country, Government, Europe

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

  Edmund Morgan

  Exercise, Government, History

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• I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Government, People, Giving

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• The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Motivation, Inspiration, Government

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• You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Government, Views

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

  Stafford Cripps

  Mean, Government, Differences

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• No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Giving, India

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• Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

  Martin McGuinness

  Government, Giving, Decision

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• The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Government, Doors

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• No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

  Donald Sutherland

  Country, Government, Cost

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• The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

  Dick Spring

  Government, Accepted, British

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• For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

  Neal Ascherson

  Past, Government, Years

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Hands, Government, Tools

  "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: An Interview with Iran's Agitator". Interview with Scott Macleod, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

  Bhagat Singh

  Government, Sound, India

  "Awakening Indians to India" by Chinmaya Yuva Kendra, (p. 82), 2008.

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• I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

  Jay Kay

  Art, Government, Car

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• For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

  Gerry Adams

  Government, Years, Ira

  Gerry Adams' Speech to IRA in Belfast, news.bbc.co.uk. April 6, 2005.

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• We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

  Melina Mercouri

  Thank You, Government, Names

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• In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Taken, Passion, Men

  "The works of Alexander Hamilton".

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• When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade ago is the extent to which the proof has been hushed up. It isn't just the US government which has kept quiet about alien visits. It would be arrogant of an American like myself to assume that ETs would only choose to visit my country. Indeed, I've heard convincing stories about governments all over the world that know of alien visits - including the British government.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Country, Government, Would Be

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• The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

  Conan O'Brien

  Government, Two, Funny Drinking

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• The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Government, Iraq

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Government, Decision, Faces

  The Guns of August ch. 9 (1962)

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• If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Government, Doors

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• The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

  Martin McGuinness

  Government, Needs, British

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