#tis

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#british #burden #colonists #exist #financial

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. ↗

— James Madison

#anywhere #darkness #despotism #done #everywhere

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? ↗

— Bill Maher

#better #country #critique #else #flaws

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#complain #desires #despotism #discontented #his

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. ↗

— John Major

#dollars #factories #industries #into #inventions

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. ↗

— John Major

#british #country #had #irish #our

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. ↗

— John Major

#conflict #field #superb #terms #troops

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? ↗

— John Major

#conflict #established #happens #parliament #scottish

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation. ↗

— John Major

#am #behalf #bind #british #disagree

Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#better #changing #culture #embarked #getting