Country Quotes - Page 2

• Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

  George Washington

  Men, Ability

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.301

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• I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

  Miriam Makeba

  Countries Of The World, Rights, Color

  "Honoring Mama Africa: Angélique Kidjo Pays Tribute to South African Singer, Activist Miriam Makeba". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 3, 2014.

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Countries Of The World, Government, Political

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• The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Freedom, Two, People

  Opening Keynote Address video before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China, gos.sbc.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Squares, Blood

  Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12

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• What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

  Joseph Addison

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Literature

  Cato act 4, sc. 4 (1713) See Nathan Hale 1

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• I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Fighting, Countries Of The World, Patriotism

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• Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

  Alexander Pope

  Country Love, Poor, Dare

  Alexander Pope (1794). “The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield”, p.330

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• An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Names, Two

  Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards, June 24, 1938.

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Struggle, Patriotic, Men

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• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

  William Shenstone

  Love, Mean, Patriotic

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, War, Sleep

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Peace, War, Patriotic

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

  Helen Keller

  Land, Bankers, United States

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Exercise

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Helping, Asks

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2016

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• The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Safety, Purpose, Clear

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.327, Best Books on

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• The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

  Will Rogers

  Good Morning, Jobs, Good Day

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• The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

  George McGovern

  Love, Memorial Day, Acceptance

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• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Strong Women, Powerful

  1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.

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• Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

  Voltaire

  Heart, Spots, Bounds

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• Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

  Mike Pence

  Science, Cells, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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