- People
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of the great acts of American generosity and charity, what we are doing for these unaccompanied kids who are smuggled into our country or come across illegally.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an honor to be able to represent our country, and I'll go out there and play hard for the U.S.A.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
- Harmonious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the Serbian way. That's the way we approach things, especially in sport. We are a small country, but if we want something, we will fight for it. It's maybe part of the history of the country; it's just our mentality. We are small but strong.
- Tragedy
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- Nov 07, 2020