John Major Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

• The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

  John Major

  Country, Army, Years

  "Former PM John Major: 'British don't turn tail' from terror". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

• I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.

  John Major

  Country, Quality, Citizens

  "Twentieth-century British political facts, 1900-2000". Book by David Butler, Gareth Butler, 2000.

• In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

  John Major

  Country, Years, Next

  "Today" Newspaper, November 24, 1990.

• A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

• [on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

  John Major

  Country, Our Country

  "Tributes pour in for Queen Mum", www.cnn.com. April 22, 2002.

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