Country Quotes - Page 23

• If your country's in war there ain't nothin' you can do exceptin' help

  Laurette Taylor

  War, Helping, Can Do

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• I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

  Wayne White

  Children, Ideas, Needs

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• The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Thinking, Want, Developing Countries

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• Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

  Deneen Borelli

  Opportunity, Liberty, Doe

  Deneen Borelli (2013). “Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  World, Might, Administration

  Paul Craig Roberts (2010). “How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds”, p.1976, AK Press

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• Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.

  Chad Griffin

  Children, Hate, People

  "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.

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• If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.

  Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

  America, Able, Faces

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• California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  California, Democrat, Rest Easy

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• You know what, man? I am going to literally — if (Palin) gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready — because you know what? It’s for my country. It’s for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it’s for my country.

  Christopher Titus

  Sacrifice, Men, President

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• Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

  Jo Grimond

  Party, Wings, Long

  Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.

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• France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

  John Gunther

  World, Care, France

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• After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.

  Mary Pickford

  Girl, Vampire, Gowns

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• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Insults You

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

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• My country is wherever liberty lives.

  Thomas Paine

  Liberty

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• The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of the country.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Men, United States

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Justice, President

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• Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Reading, Thinking

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• I’m American. I can’t stand Brazilians. They live in a third-world country anyway, so they’ll go anywhere if there’s a little money. I live in America. I want to be a champion of an American organization.

  Phil Baroni

  Organization, America, Champion

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• I express my profound thanks to a loving Heavenly Father who gives to you, to me, and to all who sincerely seek, the knowledge that death is not the end, that His Son--even our Savior Jesus Christ--died that we might live. Temples of the Lord dot the lands of many countries. Sacred covenants are made. Celestial glory awaits the obedient. Families can be together forever.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Running, Business

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  School, Atheism, Church

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

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• I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

  James Laughlin

  Sound, Vacuums, Reader

  "The Way it Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin".

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• Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

  Adam Michnik

  Israel, Middle East, Election

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• Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

  Barbara Sher

  Horizon, Destination

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.

  Nelson Mandela

  Effort, Future Business, Business Leadership

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