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- Nov 07, 2020
Britons Quotes
On empire, identity and national pride.
These Britons quotes range widely: one 18th-century voice condemns the barbarous treatment of Native Americans by British colonists in stark moral terms, while another looks back at how Britons judged the cruelties of the Roman and Catholic empires before them.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work - the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work benefits.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Britons who backed Brexit believed - and believe still - that a U.K. 'freed' from 'Europe' would be able to recover and re-establish its historic destiny as an independent global trading nation.
- Enraged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people.
- Boundaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020