Great Country Quotes

• When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

  Jenna Bush

  Daughter, Country, Appreciation

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• American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

  Desi Arnaz

  Country, People, Laughing

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

  Martin Yan

  Country, America, United

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• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Order, Arena

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• Great countries are those that produce great people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, People, Produce

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Country, Freedom

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, 4th Of July, Mean

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Mexican Border, Southern

  Donald Trump's Announcement on Presidential Campaign Launch at the Trump Tower in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

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• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Country, Military

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• Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Country, Children

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• Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Country, Grandma, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.36, Penguin

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• A great country cannot wage a little war.

  Duke of Wellington

  Country, War, Littles

  Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (2012). “Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century”, p.377, tredition

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• Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Summer, Country, Children

  "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world.

  Sarah Silverman

  Country, Israel, Shining

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• Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

  Bob Dole

  Country, Growing Up, President

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• We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, America

  "Interventionist approach will be the first casualty of new regime" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2000.

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• Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray to fight for the survival of this great country of ours.

  William E. Simon

  Country, Fighting, Ivory Tower

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• Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Together, Citizens

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

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• Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

  Corrine Brown

  Country, Priorities, Administration

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• Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

  Immanuel Kant

  Country, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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• You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

  Laozi

  Country, Should, Fishes

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• I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

  Winfield Scott

  Country, War, Fall

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• In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, United States

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

  Chris Rock

  Country, Writing, Rapper

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2004.

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