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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• 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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• Two nations divided by a common language.

  Winston Churchill

  Common, Language, Divided

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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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• At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

  William Goldman

  War, Alliances, Chance

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

  Francois Hollande

  Europe, Important, Needs

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• Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Appreciation, Two, Democracy

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• When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Brother, War, History

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• Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

  Nick Mancuso

  Country, Growing Up, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.' For this is how Marya Morevna surmised that love was shaped: an agreement, a treaty between two nations that one could either sign or not as they pleased.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Falling In Love, Husband, Agreement

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.24, Macmillan

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• When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Queens, Two, Common Purpose

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• The record proves that in peaceful commerce the combined efforts of our countries can produce outstanding results. Our trade with each other is far greater than that of any other two nations on earth.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Two, Presidential

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We've built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty God. We've welcomed immigrants, who have helped us thrive. We've built prosperous economies by rewarding innovation and risk-taking and trade. And we've built an enduring alliance to confront terrorists and tyrants.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Israel, Tyrants

  George W. Bush's Remarks with Prime Minister Olmert in Israel, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2008.

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• I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Class, People, Privileged

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 8

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• From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

  John Galt

  Character, Scotland, Two

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• The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

  Arianna Huffington

  Opportunity, Two, America

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• Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Technology, Usa, America

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