- 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
- Hemisphere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.
- Democratically
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effect of Bill Clinton's NAFTA and Hillary Clinton's Colombian Free Trade Agreement has been devastating to Michigan and most of the rest of the country, and accounts for the appeal of Donald Trump.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think every new player needs time when they come to a new club and a new country, and I certainly did.
- Great Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband often remarked what a pity it was that a great country like America, which in Europe is still regarded as such a young nation, should be represented seemingly only by old or infirm men.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.
- Blue Jeans
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm wearing changes everything about how the show goes. If I'm wearing blue jeans and flannel, it's going to be a country show, and I'm going to get my twang on. But if I'm wearing a flapper dress, fringe or sequins, I'm rocking out, Tina Turner style.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so different in the different states, it is sometimes like being in a different country.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020