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I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land. — R.L. Bartram

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God. — Ibrahim Rugova

We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority. — Jesse Jackson

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. — Lance Armstrong

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two. — Percy Sledge

Oppression makes a poor country. — William Penn

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire. — Richard M. Nixon

There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country. — Pat Buchanan

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people. — Vladimir Putin

The life of a citizen is the property of his country. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers. — Ricardo Lagos

When you come to a new country with so little, all you have is your character. — Zack Love

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. — Ed O'Brien

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country. — Arthur Laffer

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. — Thurgood Marshall

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity. — Joel Hunter

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. — Arnold Bennett

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality. — Francois Hollande

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders. — Mike Johanns

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country. — S.I. Hayakawa

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values. — William J. Clinton

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet. — Neil Young

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. — Rick Snyder

Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight
My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you — Blake Shelton

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences. — Garry Kasparov

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. — Franklin Pierce Adams

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country. — Uta Hagen

The younger generation forms a country of its own. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces. — Ron Paul

The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love. — Frederick Lenz

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing ... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart. — Jeb Bush

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. — Charles De Gaulle

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity. — Lucas Papademos

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men. — Alexis De Tocqueville

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country. — Brenda Strong

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. — Jonathan Swift

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million. — David Letterman

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train. — Elizabeth David

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. — Henry David Thoreau

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry? — Alexandra Paul

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer. — Anthony Jeselnik

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community. — Sara Sheridan

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw. — Stuart Rothenberg

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment. — Brandon Jacobs

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. — Rutherford B. Hayes

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country! — Gerard Depardieu

some twenty more miles on an old two-lane country road. Traffic was light, just a couple of pickups and a Volkswagen, — Catherine Coulter

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ... — Mary Mapes Dodge

I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.' — Lizzy Caplan

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. — Albert Einstein

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life? — Richard Corliss

I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens! — Ibrahim Ibrahim

It was one thing not taking an old bitterness to a new country. It was another to actually pay to send back Libyan Semtex to blow up my home. — A.A. Gill

My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base. — Adam Savage

Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe. — Andrey Illarionov

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. — Ashwin Sanghi

This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong. — Bill Maher

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say. — William J. Clinton

A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. — Mark Twain

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free. — Paul Monette

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. — George Burns

A world without open country would be universal jail. — Edward Abbey

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time. — Wayne Rooney

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida. — James Mattis

Bulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it. — Garth Greenwell

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. — Timothy Noah

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood. — Rick Yancey

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty. — Bob Abernethy

After hearing from my colleagues, I have decided to run for Speaker of the House. Let's work together to make a difference for our country. — Kevin McCarthy

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration. — Tony Abbott

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country. — Jenna Bush

Protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out! — Allan Rock

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive. — Don Marquis

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country. — W. Edwards Deming

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be. — Louis O. Kelso

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English. — Hiroyuki Sanada

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. — George Canning

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — Arthur Tappan Pierson

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries. — Scott Steiner

If you don't know the fantasy life of a country, it's hard to write fiction about it. — Philip Roth

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.' — Ronald Reagan

Change is constant in a progressive country. — Benjamin Disraeli

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl. — Vesta Williams

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country. — Kym Whitley

In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country. — James Lankford

I'm basically a country person. — Bruce Sutter

A highly developed country of the past, in an advanced state of decay). — Shashi Tharoor

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back. — Ted Cruz

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. — Sunday Adelaja

Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus. — Tom Robbins

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

It's east to start a war in any country — Hermann Goring

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about. — Faye Wattleton