Quotes About British

I was an engineer with Fairbanks Morse, Mr. President. I helped design some of the engines in their locomotives before the war, but then transferred my knowledge to the engines used in the Grant and Lee tanks, many of which were sent to the British." FDR was once again intrigued by what he heard. "The engine that pulls my train is a Fairbanks Morse locomotive." Brock beamed. "Yes it is, sir. Engine 978.

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.

Indeed, it was the British Empire that, in tandem with the American democratic capitalist system, created the global economy as we know it, based as it is on consumer-driven markets, rule of law, and the ideal—at least in North America, Europe, and a growing number of emerging nations—of free and open societies. Especially

Groves' refusal to allow key project members to travel by air meant that the British had to come by train, and the Super Chief, which would be bringing them west after they changed trains in Chicago, was so chronically late that when it actually pulled into Lamy on time one afternoon no one was surprised to discover it was the previous day's train.

Well, the British do have the right to boast about their history, you know, especially about that great king of theirs, Ricahrd the Lionhearted. But even without our teaching you all this, they were participating in the process of rendering our country holy by spilling our blood. Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

No doubt the British saw themselves fighting for liberty against tyranny; but in 1815 most Englishmen were probably poorer and worse off than they had been in 1800, while most Frenchmen were almost certainly better off; nor had any except the still negligible wage-labourers lost the substantial economic benefits of the Revolution

American tanks were sent to Checkpoint Charlie as a show of strength. Soviet tanks appeared there at about five in the evening on the twenty-seventh. The British soon deployed two antitank guns to support the Americans, while all the French troops in West Berlin remained safely in their barracks. For

There was terror—but not panic. One could panic in his heart, but two together could not show it, nor a hundred in a group. They neutralize one another, and therein lies the thing that makes the British slightly different. They have laid manifold restraints upon themselves in their mutual intercourse. The British were still afraid of one another.

British toilet paper. A way of life. Coated. Refusing to absorb, soften, or bend (stiff upper lip).

the journalist asked Zachariadis why he gave an anti-British speech to a crowd of 50,000 left-wing Greeks in Thessaloniki: "Is it because you want the British to leave Greece?" Zachariadis replied, "Yes," and Springe commented: "Are you aware of the consequences?" To which the communist leader said: "I am aware that a civil war, to which we are aspiring, shall follow. It will be a question of two months. After that everything will be alright."73

Gandhi's strategy for national liberation never – this is true – condoned violence against the British, but it did include violence with them.

And what about the fascinating issue of Article 102 of the Federal Republic of Germany's "Basic Law," which abolished the death penalty in 1949, not so much for humanitarian reasons but to protect the lives of convicted Nazi war criminals by preventing their execution at the hands of British and American authorities?

As the Cold War extended and British influence diminished, so the Americans moved into traditional British areas in response to Soviet threats and the Soviet Union's growing arms industry. By the early sixties, the United States was by far the biggest exporter of arms, forcing Britain to compete more desperately for her markets abroad.

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.

Ultimately, Boris Johnson and the political and financial support behind his Brexit project are probably the biggest threat to both British democracy and the post-war welfare state settlement we've faced in the post-war period.

The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all, we were British, well-educated, reasonably cultivated and spoke with clear, classless accents.

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.

Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer.