261 Quotes About Britain

  • Author Sarah Harrison
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    If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

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  • Author Stephen Hawking
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    I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

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  • Author Thor Heyerdahl
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    People had already settled the islands in the Mediterranean and around Great Britain long before the first pharaoh built the pyramids in Egypt.

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  • Author W. Averell Harriman
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    Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

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  • Author William Hamilton
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    Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

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  • Author Michael Ignatieff
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    What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.

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  • Author R. Ingram
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    I am happy to be in New Britain this season. Going to Double-A is a big step and I'm really excited about the opportunity.

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