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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

~Eamon De Valera

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Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

~Eamon De Valera

Topics: Benefit Britain Countries Country Due Goods Government Import Large Other Other Countries Powers Unemployment Used Which

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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

~Ed Balls

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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

~Ed Miliband

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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

~Ed Miliband

Topics: About Britain Change Charge Country Generation Go Labour Message New New Generation Optimistic Our Our World Out Politics Power Taken Together Which Will World

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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: After Altogether Began Britain Countries Dropping Dynamism Falling France Germany Growth Half Late Less Loss Major More More Or Less Most Productivity Rates 1970S 1960S 1990S

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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

~Edmund Phelps

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Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: Britain Capture Clearly Eye Foreigner Forget Most Never Never Forget Sometimes Takes

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For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.

~Edward Rutherfurd

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I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

~Edwin Starr

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