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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.
- Cyber
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic missiles, cyber capabilities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
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There's one place, and one place only, to see polar bears in America. You have to travel to the country's northernmost point, the very apex of Alaska's North Slope, to the permafrost shores that stretch out on either side from the Inupiat town of Kaktovik.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.
- Economic Activity
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Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital.
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What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making it ripe for independence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the places I've visited in my life, Egypt has been the most fascinating. I've explored almost the whole country: Cairo and the Pyramids, Alexandria, the temples of Luxor and Karnak, the Valleys of the Kings and the Queens and the Nobles.
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- Nov 07, 2020