Top 34 English Government Quotes
#1. In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
Walter Schellenberg
#2. In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
Thomas Paine
#3. Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
William Blackstone
#4. Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.
John Robert Colombo
#5. If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.
Julius And Ethel Rosenberg
#6. It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
Enoch Powell
#7. Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.
Harold Macmillan
#8. You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
Rick Mercer
#9. I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Haley Joel Osment
#10. We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
Christina Stead
#11. People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.
Mike Myers
#12. I know, of course, he said, that bacon for breakfast is an English institution, almost as old as parliamentary government. But still, don't you think we might occasionally have a change, Dorothy?
George Orwell
#13. It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
Diane Ackerman
#14. Jim: I want you to search every place in this hotel where a crate of dynamite could possibly be stored.
Artie: Right. And if I find it?
Jim: I'll arrange for someone to pour cold water over your face to revive you.
Wild Wild West (TV) Season 2
Night of the Infernal Machine
Wild Wild West TV
#15. I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.
Reba McEntire
#16. Father, give me the wisdom and discernment to hear Your still, small voice through the loudness of this world.
Anonymous
#17. Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.
Noam Chomsky
#18. As he drank, I remembered that there's a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty's Government: Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes
or so the Vicar had remarked to Father ...
Alan Bradley
#19. Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Dennis Prager
#20. The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
Frank Church
#21. Wealth and riches are not evil, it is having love for wealth and riches that is evil
Sunday Adelaja
#22. How could the Rice Ring go on skinning the unfortunate peasant if it hadn't the Government behind it? The British Empire is simply a device for giving trade monopolies to the English - or rather to gangs of Jews and Scotchmen.
George Orwell
#23. We would rather not play with you," said Anne.
"Because you're a little rotter," said Tom.
Rumer Godden
#24. The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.
Jomo Kenyatta
#25. Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner
#26. Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
John Edward Redmond
#27. ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#28. English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#29. I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. But instead of all that, here he was - the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.
Leo Tolstoy
#32. We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.
Ken Calvert
#33. It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
Margaret Thatcher
#34. Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
Alan Siegel
