Country Quotes - Page 6

• I'm weary of my lonely but
  And of its blasted tree,
  The very lake is like my lot,
  So silent constantly--
  I've liv'd amid the forest gloom
  Until I almost fear--
  When will the thrilling voices come
  My spirit thirsts to hear?

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Lonely, Voice, Lakes

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• Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

  Samuel Johnson

  Green Fields, Walks, Green

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• Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd
  Please daily, and whose novelty survives
  Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

  William Cowper

  Beautiful, Views, Years

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.85, Routledge

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• They love the country, and none else, who seek
  For their own sake its silence and its shade.
  Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
  Susceptible of pity, or a mind
  Cultured and capable of sober thought.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Silence, Mind

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.73

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• Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

  Chuck Norris

  Sports, Track, Half Time

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• The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Religious, Cities, Suggestions

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• O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
  I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome;
  And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines
  When the evening star so holy shines,
  I laugh at the lore and pride of man,
  At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan;
  For what are they all in their high conceit,
  When man in the bush with God may meet?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Home, School

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• I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

  Alan Paton

  Hate, Heart, One Day

  Cry, the Beloved Country ch. 7 (1948)

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Memorial Day

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

  James M. Barrie

  Morning, Stars, Tinkerbell

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• The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

  Alan Paton

  Christian, Practice, Civilization

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Men

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• Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, President, Criticism

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

  Will Durant

  Time, People, Liberty

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled for many years, for decades and even centuries.  The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.

  Nelson Mandela

  Lying, Team, Fall

  "Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon and father of modern South Africa, dies" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. December 5, 2013.

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• I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Patriotic, America

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• Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Freedom Of Speech, Liberty, Moments

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• You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

  Ron Paul

  Law, Drug, Crime

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• Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!

  Geert Wilders

  Church, Battle, Mosques

  "Wilders: get rid of half of Koran!". Expatica magazine, February 13, 2007.

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• True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

  Garth Brooks

  Honesty, Real, Sincerity

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

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• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  Barry Humphries

  Thinking, Sheep, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Attachment, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hope, Wrecks, Causes

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• Public opinion in this country is everything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Political, Public Opinion

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.57, Library of America

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