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Country Quotes (page 87)

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go. James Baldwin
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the... Nikos Kazantzakis
I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world. Toni Morrison
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. Wallace Stegner
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? Ray Bradbury
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "If countries were named after the words you first hear when..."
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It". Georg C. Lichtenberg
Mark Twain quote: "Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it..."
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. Mark Twain
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. George W. Bush
L. Frank Baum quote: "No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country."
No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country. L. Frank Baum
...genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God. Jose Rizal
... a country where we seldom understand that we must be prepared to fight for issues bigger than an umpire's decision at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Peter Carey
Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag? Ken Follet
In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue; the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it; and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained on the sidelines. Ken Follet
Margaret Atwood quote: "In this country you can say what you likebecause no one will..."
In this country you can say what you likebecause no one will listen to you anyway Margaret Atwood
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done John Maynard Keynes

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