Country Quotes - Page 4

• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Soulmate, Husband

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• America is the best half-educated country in the world.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Education, America, Half

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• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Wisdom, Patriotic

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• Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Rights, Noble

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• The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Yesterday, History

  George W. Bush (2010). “Decision Points”, p.141, Random House

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• These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Dark, Great Day

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  Norman Cousins

  Senior, Business, Government

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Betrayal, Nerd, Betrayed

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• In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

  Dick Gregory

  Sports, Voting, Chicago

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness".

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Eyelashes, Moments

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• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  Ralph Nader

  Political, Politics, Problem

  Ralph Nader (2012). “The Seventeen Solutions: New Ideas for Our American Future”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

  Julian Barnes

  Patriotism, Great Patriotic

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• "Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Rallying Point, Honor

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Democracy, Liberty, World

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• So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Judging, India

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.243

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• Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

  Winston Churchill

  Food, Political, Healthy

  Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

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• Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Peace

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

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• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Patriotic, Thinking

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• It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

  Cyril Connolly

  Nature, Book, Persons

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• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

  Alfred Adler

  Lying, Patriotic, Men

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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