A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
| Edward Abbey |
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
| Edward Abbey |
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But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.
| John Abizaid |
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I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.
| John Abizaid |
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
| Floyd Abrams |
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And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
| Kathy Acker |
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I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
| Kathy Acker |
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
| Kathy Acker |
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
| John Acton |
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
| John Acton |
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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
| Lord Acton |
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
| Franklin P. Adams |
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
| Franklin P. Adams |
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
| John Adams |
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
| Joseph Addison |
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
| George Ade |
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
| Alfred Adler |
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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
| Felix Adler |
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
| Felix Adler |
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
| Felix Adler |
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Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.
| Bhumibol Adulyadej |
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The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
| Bhumibol Adulyadej |
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The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
| Bhumibol Adulyadej |
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Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.
| Bhumibol Adulyadej |
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Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
| Bhumibol Adulyadej |
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
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The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.
| Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf |
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If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
| Richard V. Allen |
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This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
| Richard V. Allen |
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I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.
| Rick Allen |
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But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
| Tom Allen |
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The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.
| Tom Allen |
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What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.
| Tom Allen |
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But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
| Christiane Amanpour |
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For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
| Christiane Amanpour |
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
| B. R. Ambedkar |
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
| Stephen Ambrose |
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For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
| John Amery |
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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
| Aldrich Ames |
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When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
| Aldrich Ames |
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
| Barbara Amiel |
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We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
| David Amram |
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Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
| Kevin J. Anderson |
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I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
| Marian Anderson |
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
| Ursula Andress |
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The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.
| Joe Andrew |
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I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
| Julie Andrews |
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
| Kofi Annan |
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My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
| Walter Annenberg |
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Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
| Michael Apted |
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We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.
| Jeffrey Archer |
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
| Hannah Arendt |
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I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
| Alexis Arguello |
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What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.
| Alexis Arguello |
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When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
| Alexis Arguello |
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They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.
| Joan Van Ark |
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
| Desi Arnaz |
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When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
| Desi Arnaz |
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Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
| Rudolf Arnheim |
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The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
| Rudolf Arnheim |
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I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.
| Timothy Garton Ash |
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No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
| Timothy Garton Ash |
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
| Paddy Ashdown |
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It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.
| William Henry Ashley |
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On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
| William Henry Ashley |
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The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
| William Henry Ashley |
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
| Bashar Al-Assad |
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
| Bashar Al-Assad |
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
| Bashar Al-Assad |
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
| Bashar Al-Assad |
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
| David Attenborough |
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
| Mary Austin |
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A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done.
| Alan Autry |
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Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
| Alan Autry |
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I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.
| Alan Autry |
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
| Ibrahim Babangida |
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
| Ibrahim Babangida |
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
| Ibrahim Babangida |
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
| Charles Babbage |
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
| Charles Babbage |
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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
| Charles Babbage |
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I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
| Bruce Babbitt |
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I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
| Bruce Babbitt |
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We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.
| Bruce Babbitt |
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Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
| Joe Baca |
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
| Randy Bachman |
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For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.
| Spencer Bachus |
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
| Robert Baden-Powell |
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Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.
| Ralph Bakshi |
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
| James A. Baldwin |
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
| James A. Baldwin |
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No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
| Lester Bangs |
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.
| Roger Bannister |
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My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
| Roger Bannister |
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There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
| Roy Barnes |
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America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
| John Barrymore |
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I feel very connected to poets across the country.
| John Barton |
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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
| Mikhail Baryshnikov |
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We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
| Charles Foster Bass |
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You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
| Birch Bayh |
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