“No man had once a greater veneration for Englishmen than I entertained. They were dear to me as branches of the same parental trunk, and partakers of the same religion and laws.”
— Samuel Adams, Speech at the State House in Philadelphia (1 August 1776)
“All that I can boast of in my birth, is, that I was born in Old England; the country from whence came the men who explored and settled North America; the country of Penn, and of the father and mother of General Washington.”
— William Cobbett, The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)
“The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.”
— Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764) l. 356
“I have studied History and seen most of the Republics of Europe, and I do not hesitate to affirm that there is, or has been, no Government upon Earth where the property, and especially the person, of the Subject, is by far so secure as it is among us.”
— Jean-Louis de Lolme, A Parallel Between the English Constitution and the Former Government of Sweden (1772), p. 26
“[ King Edward] was careful not to tear England violently from the splendid isolation in which she had wrapped herself.”
— Raymond Poincaré, Speech at Cannes (13 April 1912), as quoted in Notes and Queries, ser. 11, no. 123 (4 May 1912), p. 358
“England is a prison for men, a paradise for women, a purgatory for servants, a hell for horses.”
— Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

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