- Men
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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
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in the country, who would put together the modern technology, if you like, of understanding the economy and tracking it and trying to influence it.
- Domains
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in the wrong country. In much the same way, leftists sense in their bones that he was a radical, rightists that he was a Tory.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel warm toward my Irish side, but I don't know the country or the people. Hearing a traditional Irish fiddle, I feel very connected to Ireland, but that's a nostalgia many people feel who aren't Irish at all.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020