261 Quotes About Britain

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When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

For whosoever seeks to snatch away from another those things that be his own, deserves to lose his own through him who he seeks to wrong.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.