Country Quotes - Page 8

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  Harlan Howard

  Music, Inspiration, Three

  "Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies" by Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. March 5, 2002.

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• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Military, War

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47

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• Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Power, Corruption

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• I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

  Willie Nelson

  Gave Up

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• I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

  Bob Newhart

  Funny, Music, Mean

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• If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

  Dolly Parton

  Saying Bad Things, Momma, Ifs

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2010

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  No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

  Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

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• The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Long Love, Return

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Children, Heart

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

  Johnny Depp

  Freedom, Grateful, Patriotism

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• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

  John Wayne

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Patriotism

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• It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

  J. Horace McFarland

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Glowing

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• He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Army

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

  Clint Eastwood

  Power, Guy, Abuse

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• May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

  John Quincy Adams

  Successful, America, Presidential

  Letter to John Adams, 1 August 1816

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Patriotic

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Humanity, Death Penalty

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Opportunity, People

  "GOP candidates focus on Louisiana" by John Helton, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2012.

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• We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Girl, Patriotic, Boys

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  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

  James Bryce

  Memorial Day, Peace, Strong

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• We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.

  John Legend

  Choices, Community, Looks

  "John Legend launches campaign to end mass incarceration". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.msnbc.com. April 14, 2015.

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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Bullying

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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• Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Honesty, Work, Drinking

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• If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

  Barack Obama

  Body, Argument, Debate

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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