Our Country Quotes - Page 4

• Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Country, Daughter, Sex

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• Pero si hemos estado dispuestos a entregar nuestras vidas a esta empresa, que es por el honor de nuestro país, hago un llamamiento a nuestros compatriotas para que se ocupen debidamente de quienes dependen de nosotros.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Giving, Appeals

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.422, Oxford University Press

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• The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

  John Smith

  Country, Opportunity, Asks

  1994 Address to a European Gala Dinner,11 May.They were his final public words; he died the next morning of a heart attack.

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• If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it.

  Calvin Johnson

  Country, President, Next

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• My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.

  Robert Byrd

  Mom, Country, Hate

  "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2001.

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• It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Country, Greatness

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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• La reforma de la inmigración es importante en nuestro país. Tenemos muchos empresarios en las playas que dependen de los trabajadores y, especialmente en este entorno de gran crecimiento, ¿de dónde vamos a sacar gente para que trabaje en la limpieza de nuestras habitaciones de hotel o en la jardinería? No necesitamos poner a esos empresarios en la tesitura de contratar a trabajadores indocumentados e ilegales.

  Alex Sink

  Campo, Playa, Confiar

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• It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Years, Liberal Media

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• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Country, Revolution

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• I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

  Ben Bernanke

  Country, Thinking, Risk

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• Mientras respondemos al asalto de nuestro enemigo y defendemos nuestro país, nunca debemos quebrantar las leyes internacionales. La delincuencia no puede resolverse con más delincuencia.

  Meles Zenawi

  País, Ley, Enemigo

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• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  Eileen Collins

  País, Patriótico, Gente

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• I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds of products.

  Robert Rubin

  País, Real, Pensamiento

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• I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

  George Weah

  Country, Peace, People

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• Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

  Mary Whitehouse

  País, Hombres, Años

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• ¿Qué plantamos cuando plantamos un árbol?
  Mil cosas que vemos a diario,
  Plantamos la aguja que sobresale del peñasco,
  Plantamos el asta para la bandera de nuestro país;
  Plantamos la sombra libre del sol ardiente,
  Plantamos todo esto cuando plantamos un árbol.

  Enrique Abadía

  Campo, Árbol, Sol

  Henry Abbey, "¿Qué plantamos?"

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• The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Country, Wall, Depth

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• As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Country, Communication, Government

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• The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Country, Forever, Liberty

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• I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Strong, Leader

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• We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.

  Michael Enzi

  Country, Strong, Faces

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• The message is NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) is there. NAFTA has helped both our countries enormously. We live up to the terms of NAFTA. We ask you, our best friend and most important trading partner to do the same thing.

  Anne McLellan

  Country, Agreement, Important

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• When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Country, Art, Fun

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• We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.

  John Lennon

  Music, Country, Law

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