#britain

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#any #britain #challenge #day #idea

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#britain #development #easily #fuller #great

What Britain needs is an iron lady. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#iron #lady #needs

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

#affairs #always #bad #britain #country

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#britain #different #except #factor #i

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#before #britain #did #different #disease

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ↗

— George Orwell

#england #nobility #orwell #royalty #uk

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#asia #conquest #england #europe #great-britain

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#england #hope #immortality #king-arthur #matter-of-britain

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#accomplish #christian #great-britain #heard #hope