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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
- Atheist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
It still comes down to attracting players, and UCLA can attract players as well as any place in the country.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.
- Derives
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It'd be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American - that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they've woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets did a poor job covering 2016.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colby Covington has a very low IQ. He says a lot of stupid things, and it's almost embarrassing that he represents our country that way.
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