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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

True patriotism is doing something for your country. — Bill Maher

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

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country. — Robbie Robertson

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

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them. — George W. Bush

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

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

There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people. — Calvin Klein

Urban development in India ... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world. — Kushal Pal Singh

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. — Alexander Hamilton

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

An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country. — Marie Lu

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. — Kelli O'Hara

Thank you to country radio for believing in me. — Hunter Hayes

If you're callin' about my heart, it's still yours. — Blake Shelton

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. — Dave Reichert

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

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who think they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries. — Andy Rooney

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't. — Hillary Clinton

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family. — Tony Perez

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

Clean your mind and our country will automatically get dry cleaned. — Amit Abraham

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

I swear ... I'll deliver the message for the love of my country. — Kristen Britain

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at. — Rush Limbaugh

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

Beth's not on that train?"
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in. — J.R. Ward

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for. — Fawzia Koofi

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music. — John Shelton Reed

The long historian of my country's woes. — Homer

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. — James Monroe

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

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

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

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

Nations are built overtime.
Nations are destroyed overnight. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all. — Rafik Hariri

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country. — Theresa May

Dhoni is the greatest captain of our country. His record is proof of that. — Sourav Ganguly

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

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

Tom's country ends here: he will not pass the borders. Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting! — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity. — Fidel Castro

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

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. — Charles M. Schwab

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country. — Greta Garbo

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. — Peter T. King

Will America lead ... and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision? — Susan Hockfield

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

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. — Toni Morrison

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

I have always applied myself the same for club and country. — Steven Gerrard

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

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed. — Yoko Ono

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own. — Willa Cather

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. — Marina Lewycka

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

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

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

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language. — Joseph Brodsky

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

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

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in. — Benjamin Franklin

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. — NoViolet Bulawayo

You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it. — Scotty McCreery

If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who's coming in. — Ted Cruz

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. — Edwin Hardy Amies

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

It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born. — George Ticknor

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

By 1900, electric delivery wagons, trucks, buses, ambulances, and taxis were roaming city streets across the country. — Seth Fletcher

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time. — Thomas Jefferson

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful. — Pitbull

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it. — Alan Alda

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

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. — Pope Francis

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

Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country — Philip Vera Cruz

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

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

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country. — Vivian Vande Velde

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

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

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

There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere. — James Brolin