British Controlled Territory

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

    “The British blockade won the war; but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it. I suppose the enemy was no wiser. War is not a sharpener of wits.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

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

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