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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• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Dozen, Civics

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• Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

  Elton John

  Tabloids, Share, Wells

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• When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Spain, World

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• MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain

  George Galloway

  Years, People, Bugs

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• Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Europe, Ideas

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

  Liam Fox

  Broken Heart, Country, People

  "Liam Fox calls for faster UK troop withdrawal from Afghanistan" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

  George Mikes

  Mean, People, Kingdoms

  George Mikes (1973). “How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Order, Law

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• Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

  John Major

  Clever, Stupid, Silly

  1991 Quoted in the Observer, 7 Jul.

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• I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

  James Callaghan

  Brother, Joining, Band

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• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  Wendell Willkie

  Relationship, Faces, Honest

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• Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

  Peter Mandelson

  Reform, Needs, Economic

  "Full text: Peter Mandelson's speech on a new consensus for Europe", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2005.

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• The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Men, Aggravation

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• In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

  Buchi Emecheta

  People, Black, Prejudice

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• Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

  Jacques Delors

  Past, Employment, Unions

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• Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

  Eamon de Valera

  Country, Government, Unemployment

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• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  Walter Jon Williams

  School

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• We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

  Douglas Hurd

  War, Iraq, Germany

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• When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Three

  Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 1941

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• In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

  Maxime Weygand

  War, Three, World

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