Country Quotes - Page 5

• What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

  Horace

  Country Love, Able, Exile

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 141-42, Carmina II. 16. 19, 1922.

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• I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

  Charley Pride

  Thinking, Rooms, Enough

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• It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Kindness, Patriotic, Pride

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Lovely, Mind, Would Be

  Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

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• So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mountain, Loud, Whirlwind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1851). “The Traveller”, p.7

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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• Our country is wherever we are well off.
  [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Patriotism, Wells, Country Love

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• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Desire, Alive, After Death

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.119, HarperCollins UK

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• 'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Art Of War

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

  Luis Bunuel

  God, Teamwork, Fear

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.153, Random House

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• Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

  Dierks Bentley

  Inspirational, Bucks, Bentley

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• These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Summer, Patriotic

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

  George Santayana

  4th Of July, Knowledge, Patriotic

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.

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  My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Boys, Opportunity

  Letter to Senator George H. Moses on June 14, 1928. "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover", volume 2, p. 195, 1952.

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• What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.

  Michelle Malkin

  Motivational, Gratitude, Greed

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• This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Movie, Sarcastic

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• Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Men, Class, Politics

  Dr B.R. Ambedkar (2014). “Annihilation of Caste”, p.30, Ssoft Group, INDIA

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• The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

  Henry Ford

  People, Political, Doing Good

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• 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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• One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Song, Believe, Thinking

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• All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Night, Fog

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• I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country Life, Born, Has Beens

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

  Wynonna Judd

  Honesty, Real, Long

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• Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

  Charles Churchill

  Faults, England, Stills

  The Farewell l. 27 (1764)

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