Country sayings

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◆ Peace in a country does not mean absence of war but when things are in order.

- 99

◆ In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

- Felix Marti-Ibanez99

◆ It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

- Frederick Scott Oliver99

◆ The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank

- Jonathan Raban99

◆ In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

- George William Curtis99

◆ Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for English in this country

- Valerie Desmond99

◆ My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential

- Herbert Hoover99

◆ When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, "What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

- Leonard I Sweet99

◆ My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

- John Adams99

◆ Blessed be the country where force and punishment don't have to be employed.

- Mariana Fulger99

◆ An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod

- Franklin D Roosevelt99