Quotes about country
country competition age
In a day and age of global competition and instantaneous financial flows, you have to be highly sensitive to the way in which tax policy impacts your overall competitiveness as a country. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
country hands white
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country will be in the hands of white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians. The former being a little superior in education, as they are inferior in every moral virtue. Jon Lee Anderson
country people deserve-better
If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better. Jon Corzine
country political belief
I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it. Jon Bernthal
country responsibility thinking
I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.
country america people
People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions. Johnny Otis
country appreciate world
I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country. Johnny Weir
country silly giving
It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter. Johnny Carson
country stars men
Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head - this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle.
country thinking america
When I think about country music, I think about America. Johnny Cash
country song eyes-wide-open
Because you're mine, I walk the line.
country song sadness
By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.
country order issues
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do. Lynn Redgrave
country fighting generations
Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation. Luis Fortuno
country party opportunity
I am impressed by the progress the RNC has made in the last year to engage Latino communities across the country. I look forward to continue working alongside Chairman Priebus and Co-Chair Day to ensure that the party's year-round engagement effort continues to grow and reach new Latino neighborhoods.
country principles spending
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
country blessed tree
In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland. Ludwig van Beethoven
country philosophy book
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads. Ludwig Wittgenstein
country kings thinking
In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination. Louis Stokes
country government years
It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. Louis MacNeice
country hard-work mind
We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot. Louis Pasteur
country light world
Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world
country suffering doe
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me
country hard-work should-have
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
country science technology
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
country arbitrary steps
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. Lord Chesterfield
country travel nature
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
country laughing arms
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. Lord Byron
country selfish world
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
country men ethos
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
country freedom equality
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
country class ideas
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.
country falling-in-love peace
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.