Our Country Quotes - Page 8

• When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

  Larry R. Thompson

  Country, Future, Thinking

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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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• Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Country, Government

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• Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

  Roy Moore

  Country, Deny, Acknowledgement

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. November 21, 2002.

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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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• 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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• We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

  John Stott

  Country, Mean, Religion

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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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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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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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• I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

  Clarence Thomas

  Country, Love Is, Hands

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• 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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• This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

  John Doolittle

  Country, War, Iraq

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• These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Adversity, Home

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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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• I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

  Richard Shelby

  Country, Believe, Order

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• I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

  Andy Rooney

  Country, Hate, Thinking

  "Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit".

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• In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

  Melina Mercouri

  Country, Hypocrite, Names

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• Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

  Dennis Franz

  Country, Hard Work, Opportunity

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