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Letter "C" » Country
«I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.»
Author: Alan Paton
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Country,
Pride
| Keywords:
Africa, contribution, envision, envisioned, envisioning, groups, South Africa, take pride
«I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.»
Author: Denis Leary
(Actor)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
combine, Iran, Iraq, Iraq and, irate, One Country, pissed, pissed off, piss off
«Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good»
«My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Chance,
Country,
Giving,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
influential, inheritance, Land of Opportunity, My Country, owes, schooling, village
«I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.»
«My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived»
«My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.»
«My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.»
«Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.»
«I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le»
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