Our Country Quotes - Page 17

• Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Country, Daughter, Sex

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• But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Giving, Appeals

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.422, Oxford University Press

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• The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

  John Smith

  Country, Opportunity, Asks

  1994 Address to a European Gala Dinner,11 May.They were his final public words; he died the next morning of a heart attack.

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• If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it.

  Calvin Johnson

  Country, President, Next

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• My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.

  Robert Byrd

  Mom, Country, Hate

  "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2001.

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• It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Country, Greatness

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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• Immigration reform is important in our country. We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.

  Alex Sink

  Country, Beach, Rely Upon

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• It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Years, Liberal Media

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• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Country, Revolution

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• I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

  Ben Bernanke

  Country, Thinking, Risk

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• As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

  Meles Zenawi

  Country, Law, Enemy

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• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  Eileen Collins

  Country, Patriotic, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Country, Baby, Retirement

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

  Michael Milken

  Country, Classroom, Found

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