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Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”

“The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.”

Years Country Night Dies Known Heard Effects Years Ago Ill Packs Doomed Hunts One Night Wales Celtic Hounds

Author:Robertson Davies

“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”

“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.”

“The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.”

People Thinking Men Country Leader Shapes Disaster Frightening Great Leader

Author:Lauren Bacall

“now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes”

Thinking Looks Littles Country Hard Reality Lines Mistake Break Our Country Fists Profile Clinic

Author:Ani DiFranco

“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.”

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Author:Robert Peel

“[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.”

Men War Country Political Choices Fighting Violence Productions Civil War Perpetual Leaving Me Political Power Free Country Looting

Author:Ayn Rand

“A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.”

Country Political Cutting Tree Come Up Forests Old Trees

Book:The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

“It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.”

World May Country Sometimes Rich Brilliant France

Author:Lillian Hellman

“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.”

“If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.”

People Ifs Country Political Democracy Impossible Higher Mass Democratic Crave Political Life Democratic Country Hull House

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.”

World Important Country Individual Champion Usa Minorities Individual Freedom

Author:Dean Acheson

“We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?”

Country Sometimes Seems House Wealth Worship Oil Heat Texas Execution Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Houses Of Worship

Author:Martin Amis

“In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these same papers were astonished by the millennial wave of emotionalism that swept the country ... One paper had a print-ready story about what a slag the Princess was, and they had to pull it at the last moment. It was replaced with an image of Diana as an angel, ascending to heaven.”

Country Moments Stories Lasts Heaven Sleep Ready Months Paper Angel Died Finals Wave Print Princess Replaced Papers Tabloids Diana Millennials Ascending Slag

Author:Martin Amis

“City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down”

Heart Country Play Games Cities Trouble Towns Raised Get Away Trapped Jungle Suitcases

Book:Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte

Source: Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte

“Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.”

Country Freedom Pride Exercise Army

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.”

Country Childhood Youth Return Bears Remains Tales Agents Fairy Comparison Fairy Tale Traveler Recollection Early Childhood

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.”

Men Made Said Country He Man Made It Pregnant Biographies

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.”

World Country Use Sides Views Mankind Danger Becoming Higher Creatures Determination Argument Rose Mere Profession Beast Clients Prey Grind Jurists

Author:Andrew Dickson White

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Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.”

Source: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1

“I think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are going to live in this country, they have to be put on a pathway to citizenship that involves them paying a fine, making sure that they are at the back of the line and not cutting in front of people who applied legally to come into the country.”

People Ifs Thinking Country Nations Lines Cutting Fronts Fine Instinct Folks Immigration Generous Immigrants Citizenship Pathways Illegal Immigration

Author:Barack Obama

“When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.”

Giving Has Beens War Country America Lost Waiting President Effort Struggle Policy Promise Republican Democrat Iraq Terror Billions Experts Assurance Iraq War Patience And Waiting Refocus

Author:Barack Obama

“If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation - one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

“Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters ... Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.”

Country Defeat Iraq Terrorist Eighty

Book:Yes, We Can

Source: Yes, We Can

“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.”

“I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“The question now was...whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.”

Country Beautiful Blood Constitution Submit Fabric Despotism

Author:Charles James Fox

“My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of my life on which I reflect with more pleasure. I have given to my country a judge equal to a Hole, Holt, or a Mansfield.”

People Country States Given Pleasure United United States Judging Equal Holes

Author:John Marshall

“The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.”

War Real Country Reason Left Poverty Tragedy Spread Aids Civil War Killers Civilians Hiv Slums Hiv Aids Mozambique Angola

Author:Miriam Makeba

“In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.”

People Ifs World Years Made Country States Havens My Friends Europe Asking Grateful Made It Around The World Be Grateful Asia

Author:Miriam Makeba

“I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.”

Thinking Knows World Country Moving Building Praying Shapes Work Out Block Optimistic Makeup Better Place Realist Building Blocks Things Work Out

Author:Shirley Temple

“The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.”

World Country America Constitution Clinton Congress Criminals Sovereignty Oath Daylight

Author:Jerry Brown

“I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”

Ifs Thinking Country Given Conditions Brother Indian Awards Altered Keepers Inappropriate American Indian Executioners

Author:Marlon Brando

“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”

Ifs Firsts Country Can Do Politician Asking Desert Parasites Oasis Zealous

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.”

“The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.”

People Ifs World Country Matter Government Order Citizens Resources Aids Federal Government Halfway

Author:Elvis Costello

“The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.”

“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]”

Kind May Country States America United United States Five Six Europe Twenties South Species Other Countries Fifteen Snakes Boast Poisonous South America Rattlesnakes Poisonous Snakes

Author:Will Cuppy

“We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.”

Country Able House Pieces Doors Creating Property Welcome Ownership

Author:George W. Bush

“The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.”

Trying Country Nations Chile

Author:Augusto Pinochet

“The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.”

Way Feels Years Soul Country Shows Lasts Growth Millions Fate Roots India Translations Hereafter Sprung Vedas Uprooting

Author:Max Muller

“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?”

Art Country Suffering Humanity Given Pleasure Poor Acting Morality Photography Blessed Dear Casts My Time Absent Inventor Tolerable Dear Ones Chloroform

Author:Jane Welsh Carlyle

“Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.”

Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories

“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

Country Would Be Three Difficult Cities Knowing Four Demand Meetings Prepared Tricks Extras Afternoon Senate Twelve Friday Council Realised Reactionaries Julius Lunchtime Friday Afternoon

Author:Ken Livingstone

“Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.”

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