Country Quotes
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Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exemption...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.
Thomas Sowell
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In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.
George Steinbrenner
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I think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we're good.
Hillary Clinton
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But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?
George Steinbrenner
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Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.
Erma Bombeck
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Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Bill Clinton
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I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that Margaret Thatcher wrecked this country.
Hilary Mantel
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As the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades.
Audie Cornish
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
Ezra Pound
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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
Erica Jong
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Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly.
Dolly Parton
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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
Dolly Parton
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
Simone de Beauvoir
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
Henry Louis Gates
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I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.
Seth MacFarlane
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A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
Bill Clinton
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I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.
Scott Ritter
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We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.
Studs Terkel
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Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.
Saul Bellow
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My country is nothing if not diverse.
Andrew Sean Greer