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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

- Rupert Brooke

Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.

- Marquis Caraccioli

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

- Winston Churchill

Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.

- Charles Churchill

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so -bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

- Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Winston Churchill

O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!

- Thomas Dibdin

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

- Benjamin Disraeli

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

- Benjamin Disraeli

For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian, Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman.

- W. S. Gilbert

What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own?

- W. E. Henley

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

- Voltaire

The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

- William Shakespeare

fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

- George Bernard Shaw

When Britain first at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And Guardian angels sung this strain; "Rule Britannia! rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."

- James Thomson

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

- George Bernard Shaw