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"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country... 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
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"* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country... a country? An injustice country... just a rubbish bin!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country." »General George Patton
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"Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country." »Steven Wright
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"It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country... return." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
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"I have no country... fight for my country... the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." »Eugene V. Debs
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country." »Bertrand Russell
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"If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"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
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"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... to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner
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"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
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"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." »Sinclair Lewis
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"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country." »Sinclair Lewis
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"May God save any country... remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." »John F Kennedy
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"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." »John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country... most mockable at the court." »William Shakespeare
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"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, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
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"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope." »Herbert Hoover
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"If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." »Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand
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