Country Quotes
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone
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Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.
Edward Dunlop
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
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It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
Rickie Lee Jones
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I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America...I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America.
David Duke
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I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.
Michael Moore
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If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
Wentworth Miller
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The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.
Milos Forman
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Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.
George Michael
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Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.
Daniel Altman
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
Catherynne M. Valente
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There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.
Stanley Baldwin
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The only way we come back as a country is to build the domestic economy.
Gerald Celente
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
Seneca the Younger
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I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.
Arthur Frommer
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What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.
Tom Allen
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Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be told this, because in today's world, just doing something is not enough. You've got to tell about it, too. If you've done something and haven't told about it, it's as good as if you hadn't done it at all.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.
Rick Yune
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You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
Geoffrey Rush
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner
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Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.
Ernest Gaines
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This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.
Michele Bachmann