Our Country Quotes

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Liberty, Hazards

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

  John Boehner

  Country, Believe, Constitution

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

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• We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Moving, Justice

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• I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

  Alan Paton

  Country, Hate, Heart

  Cry, the Beloved Country ch. 7 (1948)

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• The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

  Alan Paton

  Christian, Country, Practice

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Fighting, Talking

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". Article by Geoffrey Dickens, bash.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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  Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

  James Monroe

  Country, House, Liberty

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

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• How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  Reagan, Ronald (1986). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1984”, p.93, Best Books on

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• [On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Country, One Day, Democracy

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• I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

  Clarence Thomas

  Country, Love Is, Hands

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Religious, Focus

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• These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, September 11

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Memorable, Dark

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• We're going to line up some professionals - counselors. The reality is just setting in for all of us. We didn't have the benefit of looking from the outside in. They're still absorbing everything that did happen. There will finally be some realization of what happened - as it's been described to us, the worst disaster in our country's history.

  Rick Dickson

  Country, Reality, Benefits

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• The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the opposition of major corporations. On nearly every issue, from fair labor standards, to the minimum wage, to environmental standards, to standards for a safe workplace, corporations have fought against them every step of the way.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Issues, Political

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• The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.

  Michael Milken

  Country, Classroom, Found

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• We must dress according to the dictates of fashion, make love whether we feel like it or not, kill in the name of our country, wish time away so that retirement comes more quickly, elect politicians, complain about the cost of living, change our hairstyle, criticize anyone who's different, go to a religious service and beg forgiveness for our sins and puff ourselves up with pride because we know the truth and despise the other tribe who worships a false god.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Country, Religious

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• We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of living is going down today. It's going down and the middle class is hurting because of the monetary policy. When you destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Hurt, Money

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• For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.

  Thucydides

  Country, Successful, Men

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Men, Issues

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• Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots, on the other hand, see that taking morality seriously requires that our commitment to our country be conditional in two ways. First, the actions or policies of a government must be worthy of support or, at least, must not be serious violations of morality. When nations behave immorally, patriots need not support them.

  Stephen Nathanson

  Country, Commitment, Government

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• The terrorist attacks on September the 11th were a turning point for our nation. We saw the goals of a determined enemy to expand the scale of their murder and force America to retreat from the world. And our nation accepted a mission. We will defeat this enemy. The United States of America is determined to guard our homeland against future attacks. As the September 11th Commission concluded, our country is safer than we were three years ago, but we are not yet safe

  George W. Bush

  Country, Years, America

  "On the Story" with Maria Hinojosa, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2004.

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