Famous quotes containing the words british and/or government:
“The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.”
—Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)
“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)