British Government Quotes:

Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.

- Nicholson Baker

source: "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

topic: Country, Government, Europe, British Government

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

- Harold MacMillan

source: Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson 'Macmillan' (1967) p. 243

topic: Government, Two, Determined, Tarts, British Government

No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

- Gerry Adams

topic: Philosophy, Government, Support, British Government

Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

- Gerry Adams

topic: Struggle, Government, People, Armed Struggle, British Government

The British government believes we must be resolved to disarming Saddam Hussein. It must be done before the terror weapons he possesses can be used by Saddam himself or by others with his blessing. We must steel ourselves to the consequences of that resolve and send a clear message to Saddam Hussein: You cannot win. You can only comply and disarm or be defeated. The choice is entirely yours.

- Geoff Hoon

source: "Hoon: 'No hope' without war threat", www.cnn.com. February 24, 2003.

topic: Believe, Blessing, Winning, Disarming, British Government

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

- John Hume

source: "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

topic: Government, People, Unity, British Government

Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.

- St. George Tucker

source: William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.300, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

topic: Army, Gun, Color, 2 Amendment, Patriotic Gun

Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.

- Anthony Crosland

source: Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.

topic: War, Government, Israel, Territorial, British Government

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

- Ian Paisley

source: 1997 Speech at the annual conference of the Democratic Unionist Party. InThe IrishTimes,'ThisWeekThey Said', 6 Dec.

topic: Government, Ulster, Ira, British Government

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.

- Austen Chamberlain

source: On the Polish Corridor in a letter to Sir Eyre Crowe, February 16, 1925.

topic: Government, Risk, Bones, British Government

It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939...from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.

- Maurice Cowling

source: "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 144), 1990.

topic: War, Army, Government, French Army, British Government

I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than £12.6 million.

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Successful, Government, Police, Ecuador, Embassy

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Military, War, Struggle, Sanctity Of Life, British Government

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Government, Language, Weak, British Government

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that “when are the children going to have time to play?” Well, they’re not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don’t understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.

- David Icke

source: "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

topic: Teacher, Children, Educational, Preschool Children, Left Brain

The British government is a murder machine.

- Peter King

topic: Government, Machines, Murder, British Government

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

- Eddie Mair

topic: Government, British, Sinn Fein, British Government

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.8, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Struggle, Government, Civilization, Modern Civilization, Ancient Civilizations

It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.

- Andrey Illarionov

topic: Government, Assessment, Giving, British Government

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

- Helen Mirren

source: "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

topic: Military, Army, Men, Military Man, Russian Revolution

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

- George W. Bush

source: Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

topic: Wmd, Government, Iraq, Uranium, Wmds In Iraq

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

topic: Government, Hands, United States, British Government

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

- Freeman Dyson

source: "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

topic: War, Heart, Airplane, Cambridge, Keynes

For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

- Neal Ascherson

topic: Past, Government, Years, British Government

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

- Dick Spring

topic: Government, Accepted, British, British Government

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.

- Donald Sutherland

topic: Country, Government, Cost, Accountants, British Government

In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

- Alexander Hamilton

source: "The works of Alexander Hamilton".

topic: Taken, Passion, Men, British Government

When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade ago is the extent to which the proof has been hushed up. It isn't just the US government which has kept quiet about alien visits. It would be arrogant of an American like myself to assume that ETs would only choose to visit my country. Indeed, I've heard convincing stories about governments all over the world that know of alien visits - including the British government.

- Edgar Mitchell

topic: Country, Government, Would Be, Sirius, British Government

The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Government, Two, Funny Drinking, British Government, Two Days

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

- Barbara Tuchman

source: The Guns of August ch. 9 (1962)

topic: Government, Decision, Faces, Distressing, British Government

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.

- Martin McGuinness

topic: Gun, Doors, Government, Veto, British Government

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

- Martin McGuinness

topic: Government, Needs, British, British Government

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

- Gerry Adams

source: Gerry Adams' Speech to IRA in Belfast, news.bbc.co.uk. April 6, 2005.

topic: Government, Years, Ira, British Government

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.

- Jay Kay

topic: Art, Government, Giving, British Government

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

- Bhagat Singh

topic: Government, Sound, India, British Government

The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

- Edmund Morgan

topic: Exercise, Government, History, British Government

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

- Christopher Gadsden

topic: Government, People, Giving, Parole, British Government

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

- Thomas Heatherwick

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Government, British Government

You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.

- Harry S. Truman

source: United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

topic: Country, Government, Views, British Government

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.

- Stafford Cripps

topic: Mean, Government, Differences, Chaos And Confusion, British Government

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.

- Stafford Cripps

topic: Government, Giving, Way, British Government, Sections

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.

- Martin McGuinness

topic: Government, Giving, Decision, Clarification, Reluctant

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

- Martin McGuinness

topic: Gun, Doors, Government, Sinn Fein, British Government

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

- Melina Mercouri

topic: Thank You, Names, Two, British Government