Our Country Quotes - Page 26

• We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.

  David Cameron

  Life, Country, Years

  "David Cameron Manifesto Speech in Full". www.politics.co.uk. April 14, 2015.

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• Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Technology, Weather

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• If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Religious, Children

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany”

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• I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.

  Tony Dungy

  Country, Responsibility, Home

  "Dungy retires after 7 seasons with Colts". www.espn.com. Jan 13, 2009.

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• I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Thinking, Two

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

  John Kasich

  Country, Stronger, United

  GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

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• I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Believe, Blessed

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Worry, Choices

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Our country is in serious trouble. We don't win anymore.We don't beat China in trade. We don't beat Japan, with their millions and millions of cars coming into this country, in trade. We can't beat Mexico, at the border or in trade.We can't do anything right. Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Military, Taken

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Country, Children, Law

  "'Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire'". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 02, 2007.

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• Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!

  Gerard Butler

  Country, Dog, Blood

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• It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Interview with Michelle Grattan, www.sbs.com.au. March 28, 2014.

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• In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Countries Of The World, Important

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Country, Government

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• These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Upset, Legacy

  Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.

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• I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

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• I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can speak or not. Whether they can hire a lawyer or not. Whether they have a birth certificate or not. And I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Baby, Believe

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.

  Robert Reich

  Country, Princess, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that.

  Nicolas Cage

  Country, Character, Past

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• If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Country, Eye

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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• There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Effort, Shapes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Government, Succeed

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.415

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• Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Country, Song, Appreciation

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.263, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.

  Ratan Tata

  Country, Struggle, Pride

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