Country quotations

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◆ No one in this country is created equal, our wages prove it.

- Jennifer Amorelli99

◆ Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

- Tom Lehrer98

◆ If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is likewise true that every Cuban has nothing to read and must be very cautious about what he writes

- Jacobo Timmerman98

◆ There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

- Richard Nelson Bolles98

◆ You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer

- Frank Zappa98

◆ The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged

- Hasidic Proverb98

◆ I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

- Alan Paton98

◆ You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt

- Harold Macmillan98

◆ England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes

- Robert Burton98

◆ America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time

- Thomas Wolfe98

◆ There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

- Andre Maurois98

◆ America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

- David Riesman98

◆ The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

- John Stuart Mill98

◆ The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet

- Henry David Thoreau98

◆ In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

- Simone Weil98