- Knowledge
- |
- 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
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.
- Political
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.
- Effort
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.
- Any Other Country
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.
- Journey
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.
- Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
- Deepen
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.
- Mother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'
- Push
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020