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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
- Domestic Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of this party stuff, where we're going to do what's right for this party, or we're going to do what's right for that party. Let's just get together and do what's right for the country. I think that's what all of us want.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
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- Nov 07, 2020