British Controlled Territory

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

    “Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
    A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
    Nor snow, which falling from the sky
    Hovers in its virginity.”
    —Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    “White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

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