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• Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Country, Wisdom

  Tags in Required, Learn, Every, Leave

• Giving is what makes a nation great.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Nation, Giving

• But so far as countries are concerned, I don’t go to a place to see what’s there, but who is there.

  David McCallum

  Topics in Country

• I feel it’s a person’s duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

  David McCallum

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Governing

• What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

  David Lloyd George

  Topics in Country

• The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Republican

• You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don’t balance the budget, we don’t pay them.

   

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Topics in Country

  Tags in President
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  War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Foreign, Profit, Happens
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  Living the country life helps you appreciate some of the simpler things, things that make us feel good about ourselves.

  Unknown

  Topics in Country, Life

  Tags in Appreciate, Living

• I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign – teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They’re making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.

  David Plouffe

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Teacher

• It’s really a question of fairness and what kind of country we’re going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They’re paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That’s not right.

  David Plouffe

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Secretary

• If you don’t want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem.

  David Petraeus

  Topics in Country

• Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it’s very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.

  David Ortiz

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Culture

• I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Country, Inspirational

  Tags in Betraying, Friends

• If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Energy

• Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

  Denzil Douglas

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Political

• In the country of the story the writer is king.

  Shirley Jackson

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Writing

• The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

  Dennis Miller

  Topics in Country, Death, Life

• The only two shows I watch are ‘Walking Dead’ and ‘Nashville,’ but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I’m not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

  Caitlin Rose

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Walking, Productive

• They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government, Nation