Britain Quotes - page 2

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain. (Jon Stewart)
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook. View quote
Ken Livingstone
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse. View quote
Jeane Kirkpatrick
We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries. View quote
Anthony Crosland
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the ‘luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life. View quote
Anthony Crosland
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. View quote
Robin Cook
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it's a brutal world, man. View quote
Pete Doherty
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea. View quote
Neil Kinnock
Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind. View quote
Oswald Mosley
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution. View quote
Tony Benn
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. (Tony Benn)
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal. View quote
Michael Foot
A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us. View quote
Michael Foot
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. View quote
Michael Foot
Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land. View quote
Enoch Powell
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at. View quote
Enoch Powell
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. View quote
Roy Hattersley
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. View quote
Jeremy Hardy
For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor. View quote
Johann Hari
Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic. View quote
Charles James Fox
Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. (Jerome)
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. View quote
Roger Scruton
If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman. View quote
Alex Ferguson
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him; I bet he wouldn't be able to look him in the eye. View quote
Pat Condell