Own Country Quotes
157 Own Country quotes by 139 unique authors
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In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
— Bill Bryson
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
— Nicolas Cage
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for…
— Winston Churchill
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We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in…
— Barack Obama
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great…
— Tecumseh
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
— Lawrence Durrell
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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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The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most…
— Humphry Davy
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
— James Madison
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It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the…
— Noah Webster
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A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my…
— Alice Stewart
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No man is a hero in his own country.
— John Monash
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During Congress rule terrorism was countered effectively and firmly, whereas during the BJP regime terrorists were treated like guests and released in their own country.
— Sonia Gandhi
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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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...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism.…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave…
— Hillary Clinton
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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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If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen,…
— Bill O'Reilly
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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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It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country,…
— Mona Charen
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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
Who Wrote These Own Country Quotes
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