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Quotes About Country

Let's help take back our country with our wallets, and don't forget to contact your senators and congressman to let them know that you don't want amnesty for illegal aliens, that you want them to restore our borders and our sovereignty.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.
~ Marsha Blackburn
The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.
~ Marine Le Pen
For me, the most ironic aspect of the Brexit debate has been right-wing Brexiteers speaking loftily about parliamentary sovereignty, when they have never backed MPs having a fuller involvement in how our country is run.
~ Ed Davey
I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet.
~ Yung Lean
Let's learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China's Great Leap Forward or the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. Like those two disasters, the Green New Deal would cripple our country and sacrifice Americans on the altar of environmental extremism.
~ Lauren Boebert
Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It is a very difficult one.
~ Andrzej Duda
I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
~ Alice Walker
Coming from a Haitian-American home, I thought it was necessary to give back to the country in which my parents were raised. That is why I believe in Project PlayWorld's efforts to to provide secure playing spaces for the children of Haiti with the Live Civil Playground.
~ Karen Civil
I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.
~ Vicente del Bosque
...she knew, with all her heart that running away from the country's top relationship coach was as good as saying, 'there's no hope for me, ever'!
~ Diane Hall
The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.
~ Jack Gilbert
May one refuse to adapt one's self to the LAW OF ECONOMICS?  Certainly! This is a free country, where all men are born with equal rights, including the privilege of ignoring the LAW OF ECONOMICS. What happens then? Well, nothing happens until large numbers of men join forces for the avowed purpose of ignoring the law, and taking what they want by force.
~ Napoleon Hill
But fragility and antifragility are part of the current property of an object, a coffee table, a company, an industry, a country, a political system. We can detect fragility, see it, even in many cases measure it, or at least measure comparative fragility with a small error while comparisons of risk have been (so far) unreliable.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Serious empirical investigation (largely thanks to one Lant Pritchet, then a World Bank economist) shows no evidence that raising the general level of education raises income at the level of a country. But we know the opposite is true, that wealth leads to the rise of education—not an optical illusion. We
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am not saying that for an individual, education is useless: it builds helpful credentials for one's own career—but such effect washes out at the country level.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
shows no evidence that raising the general level of education raises income at the level of a country.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Brown made a claim that possibly hit a little too close to home. 'Money is this man's god,' the handbill read, 'and to get enough of it, he would sacrifice his country.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon," Quincy said, "the thunders roll, and the lightnings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm I commit my country.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Tronstad returned to Trondheim, where he had resumed his teaching and studies at NTH. He channeled most of his prodigious energy, however, into his activities with the underground resistance, working particularly closely with several bands of university students who were pushing back against the German hold on the country.
~ Neal Bascomb
The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.
~ Charles Bukowski
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.
~ Charles Darwin
you'd better get rid of the idea that either one of us, or anyone else in this day and age, can appeal to the general interest, to patriotism or common sense, and achieve a result that's in the best interests of the country.
~ Charles McCarry
Oh, and if the Nazgûl aren't already on the alert for reports of vampires entering the country, I'm a chocolate teapot.
~ Charles Stross