Our Own Country Quotes

34 Our Own Country quotes by 31 unique authors

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course… — Douglas MacArthur
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. — Clint Eastwood
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and… — Thomas Jefferson
We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment… — Theodor Herzl
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and… — Lawren Harris
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits… — Shirley Chisholm
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,… — Thomas Jefferson
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country. — Clement Attlee
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali… — P.J. O'Rourke
I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first. — Pat Buchanan
Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives… — Henry Purcell
What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking --… — David Duke
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there… — Scott Carpenter
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we… — Jerry Bridges
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,… — Albert Camus
The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid. — Timothy M. Dolan
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country. — Carolyn McCarthy
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? — Jon Voight
Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced… — Clint Eastwood
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers. — George Santayana
With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians… — Frederick Lenz
The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to… — John Major
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and… — Black Elk
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country… — Lady Gregory

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