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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• 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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• 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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• I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Couple, Hate, Ocean

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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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• The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.

  Richard Cobden

  Race, People, Want

  Letter to M. Michel Chevalier, September, 1859.

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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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• When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Fighting, Duty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.85, A&C Black

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• There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

  John Bright

  Two, Russia, Europe

  1878 Speech, Birmingham, 13 Jan.

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• I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Opportunity, Men, Creating

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• I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States. At this time of 1814, two nations who would eventually become close allies were at war with each other, so it doesn't quite fit.

  Steven Knight

  Jobs, War, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• You have two nations, Iraq and Iran. And they were essentially the same military strength. And they'd fight for decades and decades. They'd fight forever. And they'd keep fighting and it would go - it was just a way of life. America got in, we decapitated one of those nations, Iraq. I said, "Iran is taking over Iraq." That's essentially what happened.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Fighting, Iran

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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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 was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Law, People, Inability

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

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