Quotes about Countries

Former Chancelor of the German Empire

Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

Countries - Silence

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Countries - Home - Strength - Woman

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

Age - Children - Conditioning - Countries - Crime - Difficulty - Doubt - Equality - Imagination - Impossible - Individual - Liberty - Man - Original - Slavery - State - Violence

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Countries - Linguistics

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Benito Mussolini

Former Prime Minister of Italy

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

Actions - Countries - Economy - Education - Fascism - Feelings - Meaning - Politics - State

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Desmond Tutu

Cleric, Theologian, Human Rights Activist

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

Collaboration - Countries - Making - Realization

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within its limits.

Countries - Essence - Taking

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

Countries - Progression - Wellness - Writing

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George Washington

Founding Father and Former President of the United States

To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possesed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injuction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relenquishment thereof.

Countries - Fall - Oneself - Right

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

Countries - Travel - Whole

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Democritus

Philosopher

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Countries - Diversity - Home - Man - Soul - Whole - Wisdom - World

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Former First Lady of the United States

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Countries - Wants

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Arthur Miller

Playwright, Essayist

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Countries - Drive - Innocence - Insanity

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Actions - Countries - Painting - Whole

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Warren Buffett

Business Magnate, Investor, Speaker

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

Aiming - Countries - Expectation - Incapacity

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Former President of the United States

Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

Countries - Man - Speaking - Woman

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Countries - Home - Mother

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