Quotes with country-town

Quotes 601 till 620 of 817.

  • Alexander Pope The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carl Schurz The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • John Ruskin The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Paine The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bainbridge Colby The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Brandi Chastain The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Bart Chilton The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
    Bart Chilton
    American civil servant, consultant and author (1960 - 2019)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Jindal The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • E. B. White The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Laffer The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Allen Klein The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Sinclair Lewis The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...''
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Eugene J. Mccarthy The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • William Shakespeare The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Bob Ainsworth The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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