Country Quotes - Page 19

• We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

  Wallace Shawn

  Scary, Way, Emergencies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Evil, Magic, Forget

  "The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings".

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• Magic clubs have as much to do with magic as country clubs have with being in the country.

  Theodore Annemann

  Magic, Clubs, Country Clubs

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• We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Business

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Grateful, Heart, Enemy

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• Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Sex, Race, Oneness

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• You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Order, America, Navy

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• If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.

  Peter Singer

  Believe, Animal, Consideration

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• In light of the events on September 11, my country has told me that I should not cooperate with terrorists. I therefore am refusing to cooperate with members of Congress who are some of the most extreme terrorists in history.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Animal, Light, September 11

  Craig Rosebraugh (2004). “Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front”, p.220, Lantern Books

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• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  Ezra Cornell

  Religious, Party, Political

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• In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

  Janos Kadar

  Anger, Class, Order

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• Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Notorious, Endangered Species

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• Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).

  Gunter Schabowski

  Change, Borders, Done

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• I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Stupidity, Favors

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.487, Best Books on

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• It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

  Hugh Durham

  Play, Stupidity

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• Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.

  Rod Coronado

  Animal, Cells, Long

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• Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Kings, Hatred, Feelings

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• I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.

  David Rockefeller

  Thinking, Government, People

  Interview with Benjamin Fulford, November 13, 2007.

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• What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that. [...] Because they die individually because of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and all those who ape him approve this. Forty five thousand a year in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?

  Keith Olbermann

  Years, America, People

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. January 5, 2010.

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• A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

  Wendell Willkie

  World, Matter, Imperialism

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was at the Opry if my memory serves me), I told him that. His response, 'You must be trouble.' Takes one to know one, I am so proud to say. George, his music and his mischievous trouble, will all be missed. He is a country legend.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Memories, Believe, Proud

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• The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Doe, Congress, Whole

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• Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

  Ai Weiwei

  Powerful, Heart, Whole

  "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry". Documentary, 2012.

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• Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Political, Ordinary

  "Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan". www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

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