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- Nov 07, 2020
Anglo-Saxon Quotes
On history, culture, and where people come from.
These Anglo-Saxon quotes range from a chance archaeological discovery in a back garden to reflections on growing up between Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultural influences. Each speaker approaches heritage from a different angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo-Saxons such tremendous power that Europe will become a bloc under Anglo-Saxon domination. If that is the case, it will be a very good thing. I wonder whether Stalin will be able to stand up to the others as he has done in the past.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he'd seen 'Time Team', he knew exactly what to do with it - he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do in London and New York - which is why sometimes I think I'm an Anglo-Saxon woman at heart.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
- Great Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
- Blatant
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- Nov 07, 2020