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- Nov 07, 2020
British Government Quotes
On colonial policy, Irish union, and political pressure from abroad.
These quotes span major chapters of British political history: Gandhi's demand that the British Government withdraw from India even at the risk of chaos, and the policy stance that Northern Ireland would remain in the union as long as the majority wished it. One sample compares public sympathy for a cause to the scale reached by other twentieth-century rights movements.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.
- Colonists
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- Nov 07, 2020
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
- Curiously
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
- Domestic Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020