It (the USA) is in one respect a great country… but it's not exporting its greatness to other countries, it's exporting its McDonald's and Coca-Cola and sinister CIA plots, it's not exporting its democracy and freedom and great values.
Al-Rashid, Mahmud

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any
Albani, Dame Emma

I have one burning ambition - I want to be proud of my country again. I am sick and tired of a government that mocks our traditions, our culture, our currency and even our very Britishness.
Ancram, Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr

We don't want a tired old Europe, a prisoner of its own bureaucracy, living in a haze of ingrained anti-Americanism.
Ancram, Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr

We really are fifteen different countries and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.
Angelou, Maya

Isn't it time we started fighting for humanity, instead of nations?
Asimov, Isaac

England! My country, great and free!
Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
Bailey, Philip James

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually
Baldwin, James Arthur

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
Barry, Dave

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks
Barrymore, John

Nationalism is not consciousness of the reality of national character, nor pride in it. It is a belief in the unique mission of a nation, as being intrinsically superior to the goals or attributes of whatever is outside it
Berlin, Isiah

Britain and America are separated by the Irony Curtain.
Black, Dave

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
Blake, William

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves - it is a malady caused by the humid climate
Bonaparte, Napoleon

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States
Brebner, J. Bartlett

We've been invaded without a shot being fired. It's been an absolute waste of time going to war in 1914 and 1939. Millions of people died who didn't want a federal Europe and now Tony Blair's surrendering it. If you live in South Africa and you're a patriot, they give you the Nobel Prize, If you live in England and you're a patriot, they call you a bigot. Nobody represents us.
Bromley, Tom

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.
Bush, President George W

A patriot hero or despotic chief,
To form a nation's glory or its grief.
Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel

Britannia needs no bulwarks
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o'er the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep
Campbell, Thomas

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of the air!
Carlyle, Thomas

What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Carlyle, Thomas

Be England what she will. With all her faults, she is my country still
Churchill, Charles

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer