- Live
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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
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only I can turn this country around.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.
- Changes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.
- Not Talking
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand I have seen several, several top targets for these investigations of these terrorist activities that were allowed to leave the country - I'm not talking about weeks, I'm talking about months after 9/11.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020