Modern Britain Quotes

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

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

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

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.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

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  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.

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  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.

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  Mark Steyn

  Black   Population   Looks  

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

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