- 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
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don't know if six states is a solution because is Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country really going to give California 10 new senators?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of large-scale occupations, we should rely on small units of Special Forces who have proved it's infinitely more effective to work with a country's soldiers and citizens at eye level.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing what you thought was right for the country, rather than what was politically expedient, seems almost as quaint now as having civil disagreements with those whose viewpoints differ from your own.
- Frail
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- Nov 07, 2020
What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020