#country

In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can. ↗

— Francis Lockier

#believe #country #everybody #fast #i

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#country #everlasting #every #exhausted #force

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#ask #best #contrast #country #earth

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#country #death #follow #food #forced

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#canada #communication #country #fit #huge

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it. ↗

— Robert Stone

#create #easy #name #think #you

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#few #first #first time #how #i

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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