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“Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.”

People Land Prophet Britain Tyrants Ireland Moses Fertile

Author:St. Jerome

“The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.”

Firsts Home Race Land Findings Plenty Britain Sects Julius Sprung Epicurean Dumplings

Author:John Arbuthnot

“Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.”

“What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Race Quality Destiny Land Succeed Bigger Britain Suspects Magnificent Corresponding

Book:The Selected Letters of William James

Source: The Selected Letters of William James

“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.”

Source: That Hideous Strength

“People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.”

“Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.”

Land Succeed Britain Shore

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.”

World Years Stills Today Past Given Issues Doubt Land Hundred Direct Impact Patterns No Doubt Britain Ownership Conquest Over The Past Descendants Global Issues Norman Conquest

Author:Paul Kingsnorth