Country quotes

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◆ Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us, and the greatest is love.

- Alan Jackson100

◆ To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

- Alvin Toffler99

◆ 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

- G K Chesterton99

◆ The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

- Helen Keller99

◆ We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes

- Robert Maynard Hutchins99

◆ Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

- Russell Baker99

◆ No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

- John Donne99

◆ God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

- Luis Bu?uel99

◆ If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee

- Graham Summer99

◆ El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

- Dan Quayle99

◆ As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex and money

- Paul Theroux99

◆ Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good

- Felix Adler99

◆ And whatever our faith -- whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual

- George Washington99

◆ If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

- Evita Perón99