- Hands
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
- Governors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
- Nov 07, 2020
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020