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Quotes About Great Britain

Conservatives fight every seat in Great Britain because we are a national party and believe in giving every voter the chance to vote Conservative.
~ Damian Green
Phenomenal boxing fans, I've never seen anything like it, everywhere I go people screaming 'let's go champ' it's just amazing; kids, elderly people, when it comes to boxing you can't beat Great Britain.
~ Shannon Briggs
Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?
~ John Paul Jones
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.
~ Aneurin Bevan
To this day, this loan has never been paid back. It cannot be. If it ever were, the entire monetary system of Great Britain would cease to exist.
~ David Graeber
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
~ Julia Ward Howe
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
I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?
~ Michael Moore
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.
~ Linda Colley
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.
~ Tom Kettle
Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.
~ Francois Fillon
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.
~ Linda Colley
The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.
~ Neil Young
I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.
~ Nicky Gumbel
There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
~ William Golding
A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.
~ Jay Leno
And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.
~ Jimmy Carter
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.
~ John Strachan
The model from which the idea of this institution has been borrowed, pointed out that course to the convention. In Great Britain it is the province of the House of Commons to prefer the impeachment, and of the House of Lords to decide upon it. Several of the State constitutions have followed the example.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.'
~ Declan Donnelly
I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid. I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched 'Robin Hood,' 'Star Wars,' 'Highlander' and 'The Three Musketeers,' and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.
~ Kieran Bew
Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.
~ Lech Walesa
Nietzsche would have said the Dionysian spirit was abroad in Great Britain that year. Freud, who read and enjoyed Nietzsche, would say in his own language that unconscious forces were erupting. Jung, influenced by both Freud and Nietzsche, would say the Dionysian archetype was escaping from the collective unconscious, accompanied by synchronicities (uncanny coincidences).
~ Robert Anton Wilson