Top British Quotes
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Lord Acton
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Louis Leakey
Richard Jefferson 
Ken Burns 
Edgar Degas 
Chaka Fattah 
Luther Vandross 
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 
Anthony Head 
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