Peter Padfield Quotes:
Ocupation: Biographer
Life: b. 1932
It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride.
source: Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books
topic: Pride, Government, Flames, Provinces, Great Britain, National Pride
