Christopher Monckton Quotes

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general feeling that if we were to break away it would be game over and we would be bankrupt. If that is the case then that's exactly what we should do. Why are we, a country that would be bankrupt, leaching off another one?

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.

Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism's unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

No, I don't think I've ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want to be independent then we should aim for the same thing.

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.

There is magic in Scotland. It's country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.

This country needs nothing less than wholesale federalisation. The reasons are threefold: economic, democratic and cultural.

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen.

It will be increasingly difficult to keep Scotland as a part of the U.K. I hope that doesn't happen, but everyone knows David Cameron has put that at risk.

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

The left can't wait to condemn this country. The left can't wait to tell stories of how we have, I don't know, just made messes of things, as their justification for chopping us down to size and for disqualifying us superpower status. We haven't earned it. We've built our nation on the backs of slaves and other discrimination and so forth.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.