Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
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Two Nations
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Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"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
Politician, Author
"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"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?"
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"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
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"Two nations divided by a common language."
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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."
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"When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war."
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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."
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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."
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"What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce."
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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."
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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."
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