Portal:Gibraltar/Quotes

Quotes

These are selected quotes related to the Gibraltar which appear on Portal:Gibraltar.

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“ This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history – 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish. ” — Michael Ancram, United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.

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“ Well, Gibraltar is a place which you either love or hate. I quite like it. It's a rock, that is essentially what it is. It's a British colony. ” — Nigel Short, British chess player.

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“ I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again. ” — Richard H. Davis (1864 − 1916), popular writer of fiction and drama.

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“ Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar. ” — Channing Pollock (1880 – 1946), American playwright, critic and writer of film scenarios.

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“ We shall go forward in the future partnership and in amity for the good Government and sure safe-keeping of Gibraltar. ” — Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Gibraltar in May 1954.

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“ I ask and require of the Kings, my successors, that they may hold and retain the said city for themselves and in their own possession. ” — Isabella of Castile, 1504, Queen regnant of Castile and Leon.

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“ Look round, my boys, and view how beautiful the Rock appears by the light of the glorious fire. ” — George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, at the end of the sortie, 27 November 1781.

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“ Britain's Gibraltar made possible the invasion of North-West Africa. Without it the vital air cover would not have been quickly established on the North African Fields. ” — Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star General and the 34^th President of the United States.

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“ Gibraltar is a place which Englishmen ought to know and to revere. It affords at once a monument of her past deeds and a proof of her present power. ” — Lord St. Vincent's biographer, 1838.

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“ ...with uplifted hands he [Ferdinand IV of Castile] gave thanks to Providence for the reduction under his dominion of a Rock and Castle, so important and almost impregnable. ” — Pero López de Ayala, pg. 55.

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