Modern Britain Quotes

• In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

  Edward Leigh

  Mother, Pro Life, Modern

  "MPs back 24-week abortion limit", news.bbc.co.uk. May 20, 2008.

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Children, Growing Up, Years

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

  David Cameron

  Country, Voice, Sound

  David Cameron's Speech aimed at Liberal Democrats: join me in my mission, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

  Mark Steyn

  Black, Population, Looks

  Mark Steyn (2011). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.206, Regnery Publishing

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• As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Let Down, Modern, Boxes

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

  Anthony Daniels

  Childhood, Modern, Britain

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Frontpage Magazine interview, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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