- Government
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its minorities.
- Different Type
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- Nov 07, 2020
While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020