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title: "3 Accept Country Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Accept Country quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Accept Country sayings and thoughts."
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> [“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/to-understand-your-country-you-must-love-it-to-love-it-you-must-in-a/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/roberto-mangabeira-unger-45804_hope_to-understand-your-country-you-must-love_1918882.jpg)

> [To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/to-accept-your-country-without-betraying-it-you-must-love-it-for-that/)

[Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/cornel-west-708_accepting_to-accept-your-country-without-betraying_2519829.jpg)

> [We would not accept any country telling us who to buy weapons from and who not to buy from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/subrahmanyam-jaishankar/we-would-not-accept-any-country-telling-us-who-to-buy-weapons-from/)

[Subrahmanyam Jaishankar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/subrahmanyam-jaishankar/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/subrahmanyam-jaishankar-33193_accept_we-would-not-accept-any-country-telling_3119117.jpg)

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