- Never
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes there are actions that we are forced to take, but there need to be boundaries beyond which we are going to recognize that we're not going to go because we still are Americans, and we are supposed to be representing something to people in this country and overseas.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is a hero in his own country.
- Big Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.
- Labour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country with a conscience.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020