Quotes: country
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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George Ade
American humorist, playwright
1866-1944
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.
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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.
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Billy Wilder
Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist
1906-2002
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
1694-1773
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
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