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“No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.”

Said Country Enough Problem Government Rich Cost Taxes British Accountants British Government

Author:Donald Sutherland

“I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.”

People Thinking Looks Country Eye Certain Views Comedy Bird British Canada Look At Me Objectivity

Author:Eric McCormack

“The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics”

Country States Politics British Depressing British Politics Most Depressing

Author:Clare Short

“The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.”

Wells Country Nations Imagination Wonderful Heard British Wonderful Places

Author:George Seaton

“I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.”

Men World Should Country Shows Hands Turns Grows Fields He Man British Nails Sovereign Propose Defence Animated Matched Valour

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.”

People Years Country Able Jobs Offers Train Workers Available British Our Country Unemployed New Job

Author:Gordon Brown

“I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.”

“That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.”

Should Years Country Action Situation Population British Indian Cents Illiterate Immediate Action British Rule

Author:Syama Prasad Mukherjee

“The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.”

Giving May Country Done Law Rights Subjects Protect England Committed British Remedy Grievance

Author:Bayley

“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837