| "If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals." »Charles Kuralt |
| "I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." »Eugene V. Debs |
| "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner |
| "Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country." »Sinclair Lewis |
| "There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do." »Richard Nelson Bolles |
| "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." »E. M. Forster |
| "It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." »Baha'u'llah |
| "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles." »Charles Sumner |
| "Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right." »Mark Twain |
| "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." »Orson Welles |
| "I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me." »Neil Kinnock |
| "Genius is of no country." »Charles Churchill |
| "Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country." »Mel Brooks |
| "I love my country too much to be a nationalist." »Albert Camus |
| "Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans." »Alf Landon |
| "Stranger in a strange country." »Sophocles |
| "The family is the country of the heart." »Giuseppe Mazzini |
| "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs." »German proverb |
| "What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country" »Joseph Addison |
| "By following the concept of 'one country, two systems,' you don't swallow me up nor I you." »Deng Xiaoping |
| "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The rich are the scum of the earth in every country." »G. K. Chesterton |
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