Best Our Country Quotations
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This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women…
— John Doolittle
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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.
— Ronald Reagan
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders…
— Jimmy Carter
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Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted,…
— John Peter Altgeld
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good…
— Thomas A. Edison
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
— C.S. Lewis
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and…
— Jacques Chirac
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If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do…
— Walter E. Williams
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I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the…
— Robert Kennedy
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...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It…
— Robert Kennedy
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The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain…
— Ronald Reagan
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It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to…
— Tony Bennett
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The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor…
— William Holmes McGuffey
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
— Oscar Robertson
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We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our…
— Bob Menendez
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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.
— Sarah Palin
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to…
— Barack Obama
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Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a…
— Pete Hegseth
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Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
— Charles Rangel
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