Our Country Quotes - Page 17

• Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Two, Presidential

  Remarks at town meeting, Bardstown, Ky., 31 July 1979, referring to a speech on energy and national goals broadcast 15 July 1979.

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• 5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Citizens, Care

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• You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Country, Children, Doctors

  Jomo Kenyatta (1965). “Harambee!: The Prime Minister of Kenya's Speeches, 1963-1964 : from the Attainment of Internal Self Government to the Threshold of the Kenya Republic”, Nairobi : Oxford University Press, 1964 [i.e. 1965]

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• Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Country, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.358, Cambria Press

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• Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece”

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• The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.

  John Muir

  Summer, Country, Sky

  John Muir (1918). “The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails”

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• The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

  Barack Obama

  Country, Racism, Progress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

  Tom Hayden

  Country, People, Want

  "Mayor declares 2014 the 'year of the Bible' in Texas city". Fox 4 News Interview, www.foxnews.com. January 02, 2014.

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• Our rights do not come from God. That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country.

  Chris Cuomo

  Country, Rights

  "CNN's Cuomo Badgers Roy Moore on Traditional Marriage: 'It's About Discrimination'". "New Day", www.newsbusters.org. February 12, 2015.

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• Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.

  Herbert

  Country, Integrity, Blessed

  Hoover, Herbert (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929”, p.11, Best Books on

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• One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Thinking, Ubuntu

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• When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.

  Martin O'Malley

  Country, Book, Mean

  "Where does Democrat Martin O'Malley stand?". Interview with The Des Moines Register, www.desmoinesregister.com. March 22, 2015.

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• Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

  Roseanne Barr

  Country, America, Adults

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.

  Alex Johnston

  Country, Smart, Issues

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• A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Wife

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."

  Carl Schurz

  Wise, Country, Selfish

  Speech expanding upon his famous statement in the Senate many years before, at the Anti-Imperialistic Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 1899.

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• Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

  Socrates

  Mother, Country, Father

  "Crito". By Plato,

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• Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Country, Patriotic, Judging

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• We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

  Margaret Fuller

  Country, Mother, Destiny

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.108

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• As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.

  George Lucas

  Country, Thinking, People

  "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons". Interview with Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Holiday, Weekend

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• Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Blessing, Opportunity

  "Hillary Clinton Sits Down With Bill O'Reilly". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2008.

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• As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Jobs, People

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Educational, School

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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