Let our object be our country, our whole country and nothing but our country.
Daniel Webster 1825
Category: English Identity, Patriotism
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
John Major
Category: English Identity
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: English Identity, What is a Political Party?
We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.
Margaret Thatcher 05/1980
Category: English Identity
We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.
Margaret Thatcher 30/01/1979
Category: English Identity, Immigration
The spirit has stirred and the nation has begun to assert itself. Things are not going to be the same again.
Margaret Thatcher
following the Falklands War
Category: Falklands War, English Identity
