†the Metropolis of Great-Britain, founded before the City of Rome, walled by Constantine the Great, no ways inferior to the greatest in Europe for Riches and Greatness.

-Bailey, Nathan   d.1742
     LONDON1721 An Universal Etymological English Dictionary.

Just foraword'neutrality'öaword which inwartimehas so often been disregardedöjust for a scrap of paper Great Britain isgoing to make war on a kindred nation who desires nothing better than to be friends with her.

-Bethmann Hollweg,Theobald von
  On Britain's reaction to the German invasion of neutral Belgium, 4  Aug. Quoted in British Documents on the Origins of the War1898^1914 (1926), vol.11.

It is a superstition of an antiquated diplomacy that there is any necessaryantagonism between Russia and Great Britain. 202

-of Salisbury
  Speech, London Guildhall, 9 Nov.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

-Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon
  Quoted in the Sydney MorningHerald, 27  Apr. Menzies was one of the first  Australian statesmen to recognize the importance to his country of  Asia.

On the platform stood a policeman of normal proportions, and instead of a revolver and a truncheon he carried a copy of Ben Hur translated into Irish, which he was evidently studying for an examination important to his professional advancement. MrThewless realised that the imperial might of Great Britain lay behind him and that in front was the philosophic republic of Mr de Valera.

-Stewart,John Innes Mackintosh
  TheJourneying Boy.