Our Country Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.

  Harry Reid

  Country, War, Enemy

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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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• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, War, Lying

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• 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Kings, Tree

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.87

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• I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks, we are a divided nation. Not between Democrats or Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, or tops and bottoms. No, we are divided by those who think with their head, and those who know with their heart.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Book, Heart

  "Happy Anniversary, Stephen Colbert" by Rachel Sklar, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Glorious

  Horace (1893). “The Works of Horace”

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• I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.

  Mac Thornberry

  Country, Organization, Waste

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• You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Country, Caring, India

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• It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Country, Giving, Chance

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• The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Fun, Powerful

  Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

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• Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Sea, Bridges

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.138, University of Virginia Press

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• Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Country, Rights, Law

  Aviva Chomsky (2007). “They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration”, p.184, Beacon Press

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• Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Lying, Eye

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

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• Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.

  Earl Warren

  Country, Father, House

  The San Francisco Chronicle, p. 3, October 30, 1948.

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• The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

  Barbra Streisand

  Country, Years, Perfect

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• Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Character, Power

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• In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

  Max Baucus

  Country, Military, Important

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• The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

  Irwin Edman

  Country, Lying, Quality

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• I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.

  Jack Anderson

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Money, Moving

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• We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Country, Penalties

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, Years, Law

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