Britain Quotes

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, Future

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, Ask, United

What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret Thatcher

Needs, Lady, Iron

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Thatcher

Good, Strong, Bad

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Robert Mugabe

Change, Themselves, Call

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
Stephen Hawking

Change, Great, America

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
David Bowie

Best, Rate, Bryan

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

After, Making, Bit

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

Group, President, Rest

I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.
David Cameron

Children, Mean, Put

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
Noam Chomsky

Iraq, Reasonable, Increase

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher Hitchens

School, Small, Language

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

Best, Rest, Clear

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
John Cleese

America, Both, Either

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
David Cameron

Above, Openness

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
David Hockney

Country, Small, Large

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
David Cameron

Success, Time, Alone

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

Evil, Friends, Here

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
David Cameron

Deal, Europe, British

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.
David Cameron

Positive, Future, Play

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
Annie Lennox

Great, Sometimes, Bit

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
Jonathan Sacks

Ethical, Conduct

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
David Cameron

Time, Business, Small

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.
David Cameron

Others, Union, Seem

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
David Cameron

Successful, Long, Single

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.
David Cameron

Best, Union, Open

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne Westwood

Young, Here, Show

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
David Icke

Language, London, Mass

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

Today, Law, Tough

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
Bono

America, Why, Else

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