British Controlled Territory

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

    “If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
    —British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)

    “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.”
    —Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)