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• May future generations look back on our work
  and say that these were men and women who,
  in a moment of great crisis,
  stood up to their politicians,
  the opinion-makers, and the establishment,
  and saved their country.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Generations, Looks

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• Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.

  Portia Simpson-Miller

  Sports, Educational, Pride

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• Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

  Mark Twain

  Surprise, Whole

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.388, Library of America

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• Why should we believe in God? — We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred.

  Gerald Burton Winrod

  Christian, Hate, Believe

  "Writings".

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Constitution Of The United States, Revolution

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Patriotic, Usa, America

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• Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

  Alan Paton

  Children, Giving, Earth

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Courage, Veterans Day, Memories

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• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  Samuel Adams

  Liberty, Hazards, Libertarian

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stupid, Power, Political

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have fallen sharply, it is worth recalling that economic statistics under the Soviet Union were hardly more reliable than any other official statements. Moreover, a country that produces what no one wants to buy, and whose workers receive wages that they cannot use to buy goods they want, is hardly in the best of economic health.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Russia, Use

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• The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, People, Division

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.80, Modern Library

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Real, Drinking, Beer

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Witty

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• God made the country, and man made the town.

  William Cowper

  God, Men, Cities

  The Task bk. 1 "The Sofa" l. 749 (1785) See Abraham Cowley 2

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• Where liberty is, there is my country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Benjamin Franklin, Mason Locke Weems (1817). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin”, p.184

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• I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

  Aamir Khan

  Voice, Citizens, Want

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• We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

  Edward James Olmos

  Children, Future, Responsibility

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• Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Past, Years, Law

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• I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Mexico, Want, Best Country

  "Mexico Ruling Party Picks First Woman Presidential Candidate". www.foxnews.com. February 06, 2012.

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• The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  People, Restaurants, Planes

  News conference after the G20 summit in Cannes, November 3-4, 2011.

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• Italy is now a great country to invest in... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Beautiful, Girl, Today

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• I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

  Gotye

  Song, People, Different

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• Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

  Carroll Quigley

  Government, Bankers, Banking

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• Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

  Paul Farmer

  Latin, Struggle, America

  Paul Farmer (2012). “Haiti After the Earthquake”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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