- Serious
- |
- 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
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.
- Changes
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
This country is undergoing great changes for the better.
- Only
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
- Direction
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
- He
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.
- Passage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
- Marriage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
- Ferment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The country is in an extraordinary ferment.
- Human
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
- Looking
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020