- History
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
- Depriving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human rights.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.
- Pandemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?
- Aspirin
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- Nov 07, 2020
We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
- Blunders
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.
- Big Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What employing thousands of people in the middle of the country has taught me is how good and hard-working Americans in all cities are, and how much most of the country resents our wealthiest cities' sense of entitlement and condescension.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020