- Opportunity
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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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I voted in elections - probably like a lot of people - but I didn't really pay that much attention to politics. But there was something that happened in 2016, and I think people were reawakened in this country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.
- Nov 07, 2020
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
- Governance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.
- Parliament
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020