El Alamein Commonwealth

Famous quotes containing the words alamein and/or commonwealth:

    “This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French—but we are British, thank God.”
    —Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein Montgomery (1887–1976)

    “Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other’s harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)