- Disaster
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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
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.
- Nov 07, 2020
Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are a compassionate country.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020