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Quotes About Country

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
~ Unknown
She thought about all she had learned in the past year and accepted the reality that, from the very first moment slavery had been permitted in a country founded on freedom,
~ Unknown
I fear there are many editors and newspapermen who will bear a heavy responsibility for what happens in our country.
~ Unknown
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
~ Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
~ Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
~ Virginia Woolf
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
~ Vita Sackville-West
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.
~ Vivekananda
Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country.
~ Unknown
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Russia's big owo
~ Vladimir Putin
Les bolcheviks, une fois consolidé et légalisé leur pouvoir, en tant que socialistes étatistes qui croient en la direction centralisée et autoritaire, commenceront à diriger la vie du pays et du peuple du sommet. […] Les bolcheviks développeront une autorité politique et un appareil d'État qui écraseront toute opposition avec une poigne de fer. »
~ Unknown
In this country [England] it is useful from time to time to kill one admiral in order to encourage the others.
~ Voltaire
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
~ W. Averell Harriman
Ello nodded "I told him. Plus Garrett threw a plastic tomahawk into his room and I think it hit him." "Seems like sufficient notice." Hunter observed. "It was from the box of Thanksgiving decorations" Ello continued. "The tomahawk symbolizes our oppression of Native peoples. If there were any justice, we would all go back where we came from and leave the country to the people who were here first." "Okay" Hunter agreed "We'll leave after dinner." Ello gave him a dark fuming glare as he stood up.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Once the city gets into a ba-hoys sa-hystem, he loses the ha-hankerin' for the ca-hountry.
~ W. C. Fields
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us. Once we had a country and we thought it fair, Look in the atlas and you'll find it there: We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now.
~ W. H. Auden
Jerome. That is a terribly wild thought. I hope you don't believe all you say. Paul Ruttledge. Perhaps not. I only know that I want to upset everything about me. Have you not noticed that it is a complaint many of us have in this country? and whether it comes from love or hate I don't know, they are so mixed together here.
~ W.B. Yeats
Red is the color of magic in every country, and has been so from the very earliest times. The caps of fairies and magicians are well-nigh always red.
~ W.B. Yeats
It is very near us that country is, it is on every side; it may be on the bare hill behind it is, or it may be in the heart of the wood.
~ W.B. Yeats
Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it
~ Mary Landrieu
We have a unique chance to heal divisions, give everyone a stake in the future and set an example as the most creative, innovative and progressive country in the world.
~ Michael Gove
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
~ Alistair Cooke
...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.
~ Mao Zedong