 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Wyatt: How do you see the future of Great Britain?
Russell: I see the future of Great Britain on the analogy of what happened in Holland. Holland was a great power in the seventeenth century and then it ceased to be a great power; but it ceased without disaster. It ceased without any particular catastrophe and settled down quite well to be a very civilized and a very respectable minor power, and I think that's what we must hope to do.
Source: Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, 1960, interview 11