Our Country Quotes - Page 11

• Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Summer, Country, Thinking

  "Chelsea: Oxford life difficult". www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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• Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

  Ari Fleischer

  Country, Growth, Sacred Things

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• I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Country, Government

  "Rand Paul Announces He’s Running For President In 2016" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2015.

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• The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Mind, Our Society

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Peace, War

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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 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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• 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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• It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

  Michel Martelly

  Country, Borders, World

  Interview with Tai Saint-Louis, allhiphop.com. August 6, 2010.

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• Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Real, Issues

  "Interview with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano". Interview with Neil Macdonald, www.cbc.ca. April 20, 2009.

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• But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.

  Jim Costa

  Country, Cutting, Oil

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• I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Running, Country

  "Jerry Falwell - Lest We Forget..." by Martin Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2007.

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• We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not be the first to do so, because our neighbours, Kenya, are doing the same on the other side of the lake.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Country, Lying, Lakes

  Daily News, April 1, 2011.

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• In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, War, Years

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

  Alan Keyes

  Country, Responsibility, Firsts

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• If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Country, Climate, Delay

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Believe, Fairness

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• America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

  Tom Daschle

  Country, Icons, America

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Food, Character

  Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

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• Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Gratitude, War

  Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

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