- Beauty
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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 Jul 31, 2026
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, I was disappointed to lose the captaincy. I was very proud to be captain of my country.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
- Caliber
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- Nov 07, 2020
In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
- Drastically
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020