Famous quotes containing the words british, dependent and/or territory:
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)