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I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

— Wilfrid Laurier

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

— Andrew Fletcher

I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

— Alison Jackson

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

— Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

— Sting

I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.

— Richard Parks Bland

We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.

— Nick Harkaway

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.

— Martin McGuinness

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

— Joseph Howe

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

— Claire Forlani