- 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
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.
- Foreign Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
- Brethren
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- Nov 07, 2020
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our system of government works best when there are checks and balances led by independent entities that are empowered to conduct fair and rigorous oversight. These are the same principles enshrined in the founding document of our country - our Constitution.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gunfire tracking technology is improving every day and has been successful in many jurisdictions around the country.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
- Fanatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020