Quotes with country

  • There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
  • Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
  • The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
  • One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
  • America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  • One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
  • Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
  • It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
  • Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
  • Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
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  • Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Baba Kalyani Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Oscar Wilde America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Ade In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Sun Tzu The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Aristide Briand A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • John Barrymore America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • John F. Kennedy Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bert Lance Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Barbara Boxer Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Billy Wilder France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Buffalo Bill Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ben Stein God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.
    A Long Memorial Day American Spectator (1 June 2010)
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Carlo Goldoni He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices
    Carlo Goldoni
    Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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  • Joseph Addison How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
    Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
    That we can die but once to serve our country!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Audie Murphy I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Oscar Wilde If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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