Two Nations Quotes

• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Britain And America

  The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) See George Bernard Shaw 58

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Feelings, Ignorant

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• Two nations divided by a common language.

  Winston Churchill

  Common, Language, Divided

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• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.308, Prabhat Prakashan

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• England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Two, America

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• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Welfare Programs, People

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

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• Little things affect little minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Teaching

  1845 Sybil, bk.3, ch.2.

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Calendars

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.

  David Frost

  Real, Resentment, Ends

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• If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

  Jimmy Carter

  Agreement, Lasts, Interest

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• As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!

  Lyn Nofziger

  Sex, Party, Long

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• Where two nations are gonna have a summit and a joint agreement's gonna be announced, the joint agreement and the language is all decided before the summit ever happens.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Agreement, Joints, Language

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rights, History, Political

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

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• The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

  Andrew Marvell

  World, Bears, Two

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.91

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• It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Discovery, Agreement, Two Lovers

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• A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Nuclear Missiles, Weapons

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change.

  Colin Powell

  Israel, Forever, Together

  McConnell Center Address on U.S. Role in Arab-Israeli Conflict, delivered 19 November 2001

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• Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

  John Redmond

  Party, Two, Theory

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• We have two nations, and it's not black or white. It's red and blue. Under Republican leadership, cities tend to do better. Cities are destroyed under Democrats, because they don't know how to deal with the constituency; they're terrified.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Cities, Two, White

  "Baltimore remains calm after first night of mandatory curfew". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

  George Will

  Thinking, Media, People

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• Our two nations have a lot in common, when you think about it. We were both founded by immigrants escaping religious persecution in other lands. We both have built vibrant democracies. Both our countries are founded on certain basic beliefs, that there is an Almighty God who watches over the affairs of men and values every life. These ties have made us natural allies, and these ties will never be broken.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Religious, Men

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• The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.

  Tim Montgomerie

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

  "Can David Cameron make Tories the new party of social justice?" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2015.

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• I respect the right of Israel to defend itself, and - and we stand with - with Israel. We're a - a nation - two nations that come together in - in peace and that want to see Iran being dissuaded from its nuclear folly.

  Mitt Romney

  Israel, Iran, Together

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• ...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror's wand.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Blood, Rivers, Magic

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.289, Vintage

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• It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

  Washington Irving

  War, Ill Will, Produce

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.54, Penguin

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