British Israel

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or israel:

    “We may be scum, but at least we’re la crème de la scum.”
    —Report on the British royal family. quoted in Sunday Times (London, Nov. 13, 1988)

    “We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)