Britons Quotes
On empire, identity and national pride.
These Britons quotes range widely: one 18th-century voice condemns the barbarous treatment of Native Americans by British colonists in stark moral terms, while another looks back at how Britons judged the cruelties of the Roman and Catholic empires before them.
One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.
Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work - the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work...
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In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it...
Many Britons who backed Brexit believed - and believe still - that a U.K. 'freed' from 'Europe' would be able to recover and re-establish its historic destiny as an independent global trading nation.
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Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people.
We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.
I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.
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More recent lines turn to Brexit and national identity, alongside the old patriotic couplet declaring that Britons never will be slaves, see always quotes for more on enduring conviction.
