8 Britons Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies. Linda Colley

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Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. James Thomson

Will Britons Waves Rule Never Slaves

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. Evelyn Waugh

Alone Other Britons Force Nations Might Use

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India. Annie Besant

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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. Helen Sharman

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Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely. Leroy Sane

Britons Respectful Photo Take Politely Very Want Ask

There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence of the rights of freeborn Britons. I suppose a lot of those Tories would have been what you might call 'one-nation Tories.' That tradition has died in the Conservative party. Emily Thornberry

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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons. Caleb Cushing

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