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Quotes About Country

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
~ Noam Chomsky
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
~ Noel Coward
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?
~ Noel Coward
At this point, a social flaw that always existed with regard to the [Roman] aristocrats in their townhouses became more evident. No longer finding urban life as secure and amenable as in the early empire, the landed rich gave primacy not to their urban mansions but to their country estates, making the latter their principal residences. The dominant forces in urban life increasingly became the bishops and cathedral clergy.
~ Unknown
America was becoming the world's best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.
~ Norman Spinrad
People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.
~ Novak Djokovic
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
~ Novak Djokovic
Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.
~ Novak Djokovic
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
~ Nuruddin Farah
Bu ülke, sorular?n yanl?? sorulmas? yüzünden bat?yor zaten.
~ Unknown
Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.
~ Octavia E. Butler
supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I mean he's like … like a symbol of the past for us to hold on to as we're pushed into the future. He's nothing. No substance. But having him there, the latest in a two-and-a-half-century-long line of American Presidents make people feel that the country, the culture that they grew up with is still here—that we'll get through these bad times and back to normal.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Its Animals show the truth about a country," I said. "Its attitude toward Animals. If people behave brutally toward Animals, no form of democracy is ever going to help them, in fact nothing will at all.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;A breath can make them, as a breath has made;But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Ah, si yo hubiera sabido que la muerte es un país donde no se puede vivir!
~ Unknown
was no mean achievement to have given a Bill of Rights to a country that, until then, had never known any kind of freedom.
~ Unknown
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
~ Omar Bongo
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
~ Omar Bongo
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
~ Orhan Pamuk
him took place all over the country. And—for better or worse—his conviction that Chinese needed a protracted period of firm, authoritarian political tutelage before democracy could be risked has become the template for reform ever since. As
~ Unknown
And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism.
~ Osama bin Laden
The war is between us and the Jews. Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.
~ Osama bin Laden