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Our nonviolence vis-Ð°-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. -- Dick Spring
No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier. -- Austen Chamberlain
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. -- Jay Kay
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed. -- Christopher Gadsden
Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. -- Stafford Cripps
You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization. -- Harry S. Truman
If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free. -- Bhagat Singh
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so. -- Stafford Cripps
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity -- John Hume
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity. -- John Hume
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. -- Harold MacMillan
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. -- Gerry Adams
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door. -- Martin McGuinness
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. -- Barbara Tuchman
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require. -- Martin McGuinness
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat. -- Tom Paulin
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. -- Donald Sutherland
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. -- Melina Mercouri
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen. -- Edward Rutherfurd
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere. -- Martin McGuinness
The British government is a murder machine, -- Peter King
Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers". -- Eddie Mair
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. -- Martin McGuinness
He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook] -- John Prescott
The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world. -- Thomas Heatherwick
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. -- George W. Bush
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government. -- Ian Paisley
The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country. -- Michael Gove
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions. -- Ai Weiwei
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls. -- James Goldsmith
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government. -- St. George Tucker

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