Country Quotes

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

  Willie Nelson

  Love, Music, Song

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.99, Penguin

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  This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspiring, 4th Of July, Adversity

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Peace, War

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Encouragement, Business

  Bill Clinton's first inauguration speech, www.aol.com. January 20, 1993.

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  A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

  James Madison

  People, Liberty, Arms

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• Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

  Faith Hill

  Real, People, Speak

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

  Stars, Fun, Food

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

  Harry S. Truman

  Fear, Voice, Government

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Years, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

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• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Government, Political

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
  country, let men label you as they may.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Memorial Day

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

  Michael Moore

  Patriotic, Thinking, Better Place

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• It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Food, People

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• If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Memorial Day, Should

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• Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

  Al McGuire

  Graduation, Basketball, Doctors

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• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Patriotic, Sublime, Contentment

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Fathers Day, Dad, Twilight

  "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

  Rachel Weisz

  Believe, Hollywood, World

  'I'm a storyteller. I don't save lives', www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2005.

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• We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Running, Military, Stronger

  "Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson: Stonewall Jackson". Book by Mary Anna Jackson, 1891.

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• Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Television, Village

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• If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Humanity, Patriotism, Citizens

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• The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Nature, Travel, Journey

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.218

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