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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
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
- I Am
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I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.
- Government
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
- Great
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
- My Own
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I don't think that I can tell any story better than the story of my own country, than the stories of my own countrymen.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
- Love
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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- Nov 07, 2020