Famous quotes containing the words billion and/or times:
“Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)
“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)