Country Quotes - Page 3

• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Peace, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  4th Of July, Mean, Patriotic

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  Walt Whitman

  Tyrants, People, May

  Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier (2007). “Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index”, p.2148, NYU Press

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• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Freedom, Equality, Diversity

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Serious, Done

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  We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Power, Democracies Have

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• What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

  Ray Charles

  Men, Special, Different

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• If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

  Winston Churchill

  Fire, Political, Advice

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Technology, Doctors, Break Through

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• This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Reading, Modern Life

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Greatness, Men

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• There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, War, Men

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Conceited, Vanity

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Order, Literature

  Edward R. Murrow's Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

  Charley Pride

  Judgement, Criticism, Needs

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  Shania Twain

  Daughter, Grandpa, Bigger And Better

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

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• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Military, Stupid

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• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Temptation, Be Good, Trials And Temptations

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 19

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• One day in the country Is worth a month in town

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Nature, One Day

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.186, Delphi Classics

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• My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Real, Winter

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

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• When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

  Andrew Johnson

  Stars, Patriotic, Stripes

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• Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Revenge, Patriotism, World

  'The Liberator' 15 December 1837 Prospectus

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• In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Home, Sunset, Patriotic

  Letter announcing Alzheimer's diagnosis, November 5, 1994.

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• There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Work, Long, People

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• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Travel, Journey

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