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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
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty sure everyone in the country wants a bigger role if they're not a star player.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that amateur-wrestling background.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is open-minded and has always travelled, every country takes something from another, and that's what makes the richness of music.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020