Our Country Quotes - Page 13

When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

Galarrwuy Yunupingu

Country, Art, Fun

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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

James Monroe

Country, Political, Progress

James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Country, Spain, Use

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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

Omar Bongo

Country, Drama, Economic Recession

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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

Zach Wamp

Country, Independent, Issues

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I can’t imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.

Sam Zell

Country, Dollars, Imagine

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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

Ed Miliband

Country, Taken, Optimistic

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Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.

Abdul Kalam

Country, Self, India

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Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying.

Samir Geagea

Christian, Country, Minorities

Speech in Ain el Remmaneh, Lebanon, March 1989.

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Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity - not simply for ourselves but for others - the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.

Henry Ford

Country, Believe, Opportunity

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My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger.

Chester Nez

Country, Important, Stronger

"Decoding history: A World War II Navajo Code Talker in his own words". CNN Interview, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.

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Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.

Raymond Kendall

Country, War, Years

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It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things.

Nelson Mandela

Beautiful, Country, Children

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.

Todd Tiahrt

Country, Believe, Mean

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It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Country, Art, Wish

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Black History is enjoying the life of our ancestors who paved the way for every African-American. No matter what color you are, the history of Blacks affected everyone; that's why we should cherish and respect Black history. Black history changed America and is continuing to change and shape our country. Black history is about everyone coming together to better themselves and America. Black history is being comfortable in your own skin no matter what color you are. Black history makes me proud of where I came from and where I am going in life.

Bernice Mosby

Country, America, Color

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Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

Qiu Jin

Country, Men, Two

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Shannen Rossmiller's work in exposing Islamic terrorists has genuinely made our country safer. She has dedicated her life to combating the terrorist threat against the United States and has amazingly been able to infiltrate and actually stop terrorist operations. Our entire country owes her an immeasurable debt of gratitude.

Steven Emerson

Country, Gratitude, Islamic

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We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place.

Chris Chocola

Country, Commitment, Fighting

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Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

John Doolittle

Country, Teacher, Children

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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

George Crook

Country, Past, Law

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My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

Tony Evans

Christian, Country, Book

Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.96, Moody Publishers

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We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

Helen Keller

Country, Real, Destiny

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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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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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