Quotes About Country

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so.

The Philippines just need 100 youth to stand up for their country

It would also be helpful if (magically) we knew how many of a country's lawyers were active in the practice of law, and how many of them were transactional lawyers. Finally, we would want to know whether lawyer-legislators are on average more likely to support legislation that promotes litigation.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

Questa smania di dir sempre male del proprio paese non l'ho mai capita.»

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. epigraph in Night Boat to Tangier

In Spain, the dead are move alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Es el tributo que se paga para vivir con tranquilidad en el país de los callados.

Y donde está prohibido todo nada está. Todo es nada y nada es todo y todo pasa, señor, todo cambia, la ciudad, el país, el idioma.

Fue el éxito de este curita pedigüeño haberse dejado llevar por su instinto, su espíritu limosnero, con el cual coincidía con lo más natural y consustancial de este país damnificado y mendicante, su vocación de pedir, que viene de lejos: cuando yo nací ya Colombia había perdido la vergüenza.

Somos un país de puesteros legalistas y de lambecuras irredentos.

I am compelled to plead my own defence before this Court. There are two reasons: first, because I have been deprived almost entirely of legal advice; second, because only he who has been outraged as deeply as I, and who has seen his country so forsaken, its justice so reviled, can speak on an occasion like this with words made of the blood of his own heart and the very marrow of truth.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

There is ideology and populism and then there's sheer madness of sending your country into a recession to prove a point no one understands.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

There cannot be a stronger proof of that genuine freedom, which is the boast of this age and country, than the power of discussing and examining, with decency and respect, the limits of the king's prerogative. A topic, that in some former ages was thought too delicate and sacred to be profaned by the pen of a subject.

There was no way of uniting the country over Brexit. Britain is deeply divided over it. Now that Brexit will happen, we must make the best of it and the country must come together.

I feel rather sad about politics,' she [Eleanor Roosevelt] wrote Isabella, 'there are so many who are out for themselves and not for the good of the country in both parties and conditions are so unsettled that we need a really fine leader.

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.