- 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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.
- Math
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country, blues, and early rock 'n' roll that he heard at night on a Louisiana radio station whose signal came in strong and clear.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was driving to school at Reseda High School - I was a junior, and it was early 1956. I had a '49 Ford. I was listening to the country station, and 'Folsom Prison Blues' comes on... It didn't sound like the stuff I was hearing on the pop stations.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country music tends to be so sentimental and homespun, it's easy to stumble into self-parody, but Haggard has brought a freshness to the themes that places him alongside Hank Williams and Willie Nelson as one of the greatest country music writers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020