This Rock is a wonderful place, with a population infinitely diversified. Moors with costumes radiant as a rainbow or an Eastern melodrama; Jews with gaberdines and skull-caps; Genoese, Highlanders, and Spaniards …

Benjamin Disraeli, 1 July 1830

 

Gibraltar is soon seen … There is neither letters nor fine art, the arts of making money and war excepted.

Richard Ford, A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (1845)

 

The value of Gibraltar harbour and base to us is so great …

Winston Churchill to Franklin Roosevelt, 16 December 1941