Country Quotes - Page 40

• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Blessed, Animal, Heritage

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, People, Lovely

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.226, Best Books on

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• You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Real, Tree, Arbor Day

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• We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

  Olaus Murie

  Inspiration, Writing, Expression

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• A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Mean, Museums

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• In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Attention, Strive, Strife

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• The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Men, Gambling, Order

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• I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

  Duncan Hines

  Inspirational, Running, Risk

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• When you wake up and see the whole creation is my valentine, the country is my valentine, the Divinity is my valentine, knowledge is my valentine then Valentine’s Day will never end for you. All 365 days is Valentine’s Day. That is how I feel - everyday is Valentine’s Day

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Valentine, Everyday, Divinity

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• Now, at the end of my visit to the Philippines, I commend you to Him, to Jesus who came among us as a child. May He enable all the beloved people of this country to work together, protecting one another, beginning with your families and communities, in building a world of justice, integrity and peace.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Children, Integrity

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• If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Vote, Republican

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• The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Jobs, Commitment

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• In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.

  George Washington

  Wise, Government, World

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.271

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• It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears, and to sound the alarm, whenever he perceives the approach of mischief. But he sounds no alarm, when there is no enemy; he never terrifies his countrymen till he is terrified himself. The patriotism, therefore, may be justly doubted of him, who professes to be disturbed by incredibilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Jealous, Secret

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.135

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• He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

  Samuel Johnson

  Rights, Wish, Patriot

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.221

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• Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole.

  Mark Lilla

  New York, Party, Writing

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• Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love You, Parent, Advice

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  Wayne Allard

  Jobs, Challenges, Growth

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• We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

  Stjepan Mesic

  Yugoslavia, Transition, Three

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Ed Markey

  Party, Rights, People

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• Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Fighting, America, President

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• I've travelled around the world, I've lived in Germany, I've lived in the United States, I've visited many countries, I can question why such a good country, such huge potential, why we don't develop in the right way.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Way, United States

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• That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

  Ishmael Reed

  Weekend, Thinking, People

  "Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California". Interviewed with Reginald Martin, aalbc.com. July 1, 1983.

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Real, Team

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Business, Investing

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