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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really empowering when you see yourself represented in entertainment and, especially, onstage when you're talking about how this country came to be.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.
- Nov 07, 2020
The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution authorizes Congress to tax Americans to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. But in Washington, the professional political class has hijacked that authority to rig up a tax code that provides for the well-being of Washington, not the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.
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- Nov 07, 2020