British Controlled Territory

Famous quotes containing the words british, controlled and/or territory:

    “The inhabitants of St. John’s and vicinity are described by an English traveler as “singularly unprepossessing,” and before completing his period he adds, “besides, they are generally very much disaffected to the British crown.” I suspect that that “besides” should have been a “because.””
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”
    —Heraclitus (c. 535 B.C.–c. 475 B.C.)

    “Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)