- Enemy
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a house in Polanco, a suburb of Mexico City, and we were planning to move there when he died. I was fourteen at the time.
- Confused
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020