- Drastic
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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
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
- Discharge
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- Nov 07, 2020
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
- Disproportionately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
- Opposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020