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“A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.”

Ifs Real Country America Joy Freedom Liberty Real Joy

Book:The Writings of Will Rogers

Source: The Writings of Will Rogers

“In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations atlast acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we [would] have[in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs.”

Heart Country States Joy Lost Nations Half Sadness My Heart Palestinian

Author:David

“We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.”

Way Country Together Joy Values Belief Given Principles Proud Loyalty Basic Principles

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”

Ifs World Ends Country Moments Would Be Joy Games Heaven Natural This World Serious Upside Down Unimportant Frivolous Serious Business Truancy

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

“You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.”

“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”

Country Home Form Joy Song Return Battle Fame Ears Brave Wave Warm Welcome Warrior Loud Boards Tides Peril Brows Afar Olives Laurels Wreaths

Book:Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

Source: Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.”

World Years Believe Children Book Country Joy Language Stars Gone Citizens Our Children Unions Wide Ministers Folly Flags Monarchs Stripes

Book:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes