Quotes by Linda Colley

"States that have experienced revolutions or have acquired their independence from empires - such as the U.S. or Australia - tend to celebrate their constitutional documents and put them on show in special galleries so that every citizen can become familiar with them. In the U.K., this is not properly done."

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"Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention."

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"Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with people in transit to, or from, their home town."

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