- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country Quotes
What people owe their country, and each other.
This page collects quotes that use "country" to talk about civic principle — due process, fair trials, and the presumption of innocence as part of the American legal tradition. For quotes about rural life and land instead of nationhood, see Countryside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Smoke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can it be that the homosexual movement, at one or two percent of the population, gets treated with such solicitude while the Catholic population, which is over a quarter of the country, is given the back of the hand?
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proponents of nationwide injunctions argue that they are necessary to ensure that the law is uniform throughout the country. But the federal judiciary wasn't made to produce instant legal uniformity.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Marshals were founded when our nation was founded and from the earliest period, one of their key tasks has been apprehension. They are our fugitive enforcers in this country.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more important institution in our country than the Department of Justice.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.
- American Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020