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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a country descends into evil, it doesn't emerge.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don't cut spending, this country is already broke. We are going off the financial cliff: the big cliff that is going to cause a total economic collapse of America.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
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- Nov 07, 2020