- Enactment
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.
- Cadre
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
- Cross
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drove from L.A. to the bottom of Florida on Vespas, and I drove cross country multiple times in a car. I've done a lot of road tripping.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
- Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.
- Panic
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- Nov 07, 2020