Our Own Country Quotes
34 Our Own Country quotes by 31 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
— Timothy M. Dolan
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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
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There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
— Jon Voight
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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