Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea."
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Britain
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Walter Walker
Artist
"Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired."
Gordon Brown
Politician
"Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal."
Anne Stevenson
Poet, Writer
"I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"What Britain needs is an iron lady."
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"My job is to stop Britain from going red."
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"I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry."
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"When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels."
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"Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success."
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"Britain is an open and tolerant country."
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"I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world."
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"It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed."
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"Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s."
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"Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe."
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"Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge."
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"Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same."
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"During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived."
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"If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs."
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"Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan."
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"I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind."
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"If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality."
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"It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India."
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"I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't."
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"I have the money and they won't get their hands on it."
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"We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again."
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