Country Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

  Tom Wilson

  Funny Things, Experience, Needs

  Tom Wilson (1997). “Ziggyisms: Notable Quotes of Wisdom for Everyday Living”, p.86, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Citizenship, Virtue

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• The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Eye, Sight, Hours

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• Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

  Walter Scott

  Hands, Land, Band

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 6, st. 1

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• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

  Walter Scott

  Names, Feet, Native

  Walter Scott (1995). “Rob Roy”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

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• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)

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• We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Allegiance, Pledge Of Allegiance

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Time

  "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

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• My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Son, Scotland

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.63

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• He made all countries where he came his own.

  John Dryden

  Country Love, Made

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.30

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Peace, Military, War

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Home, Country Love, Men

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1880). “Short Studies of American Authors”

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• And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

  John Dryden

  Dark, Land, Long

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.181, Pearson Education

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• This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, People, Risk

  Reagan, Ronald (1984). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 198”, p.119, Best Books on

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• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

  Barack Obama

  Judging, Treats

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• My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

  Edward Snowden

  Names, Perspective, Care

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 23, 2015.

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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Mistake, Equality

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

  Azim Premji

  Motivational, Encouragement, Children

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• These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

  Harry Belafonte

  Education, Children, Future

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Silly, Athlete

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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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