T Quotes
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“This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.”
“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.”
Source: Letters to my children
“This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.”
“This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.”
“This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.”
“This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.”
“This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before this country, it is that of a 'Surajya' and since the last decade, Gujarat is working in the direction of attaining Surajya.”
“This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.”
“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.”
Source: The Seventeen Solutions: New Ideas for Our American Future
“This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.”
“This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“This country has had 200 years of hegemony over the rest of the world, and it feels like our politicians, they just want to give that back.”
“This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.”
“This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground. The men of WWII were the greatest generation, perhaps Korea the forgotten, Vietnam the trampled, Cold War unsung and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan vets underestimated. Every generation has proved itself to be worthy to stand up to the precedent of the greatest generation. Going back to the Revolution American soldiers have been the best in the world. Let’s all take a remembrance for all veterans who served or are serving, peace time or wartime and gone or still with us. 11/11/16 May God Bless America and All Veterans.”
“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.”
“This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how many books are published, how many movies we make. But the greatest myth of all is what America is.”
“This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong.”
“This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.”
“This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.”
“This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.”
“This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.”
“This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.”
“This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee.”
“This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.”
“This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.”
“This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.”
“This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.”
“This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."”
“This country is not pro-American. It is United States property.”
“This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
“This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.”
“This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.”
“This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.”
“this country might have
been a pio
neer land
once.
but. there ain’t
no mo
indians blowing
custer’s mind
with a different
image of america.
this country
might have
needed shoot/
outs/daily/
once.
but. there ain’t
no mo real/white/ allamerican
bad/guys.
just.
u & me.
blk/and un/armed.
this country might have
been a pion
eer land. once.
and it still is.
check out
the falling
gun/shells on our blk/tomorrows.”
“This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on our Democratic minorities in Maine and Vermont. My patience is almost at an end, and if provoked much further I will place both countries under American protection, even if I have to send in my tourists to start trouble so I'll have to send in a force to restore order.”
“This country needs to take a deep breath. We are a strong, resilient nation. And the idea that the Russians hacked our election needs to be investigated. There is very little evidence at that moment except for the DNC servers.”
“This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.”
“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.”
“This country of ours was built on violence;
If your ass got in the way, you was killed in silence.
And these been the ways since back in the days:
Just ask the Indians or the African slaves.”
“This country of ours, this system of ours, the rule of law, the opportunity to get an education and go as far as your hard work and ambition will take you, and we created the biggest engine of economic growth in the world, the American middle class.”
“This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.”
“This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.”
“This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.”
“This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.”
“This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.”
Source: For This Land: Writings on Religion in America
“This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.”
“This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West