“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.” ShouldCountryDoneAbleSidesPrideProudStandardsAccountsGenuineOur CountryFallenBe ProudFlip Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.” PeopleCountryStatesWholeHumorFunnyAmericaSidesComedyPercentFolksTraveled Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingWarCountryParentSidesGrewGrew UpBrighterWrong WayBrighter Side Author:Andy Murray
“Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.” CountryChristianSidesBirthDareChristmasSecularFestivalsBlasphemy Book:Letter from America, 1946-2004 Source: Letter from America, 1946-2004
“W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.” KnowsMenWorldSoulCountryHumanitySidesWalksStrangeRangeWoe Author:Sam Walter Foss
“I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?” MindLooksSaidCountryGuyOpportunitySidesHoursSawsSellingDirtGlancesThat GuyTennesseeGreat Country Author:Bill Hicks
“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.” FirstsHumansCountrySpiritSidesPerfectAirFlowerLateSummerEnglandStealingShouldersFlightHeatAutumnLeafsSpyAugustCloaksNew EnglandSummertimeSummer DaysRipeningSummer SunSummer GardenSummer InspirationalLeaves And FlowersLate Summer Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.” MenHas BeensCountrySpiritSidesNaturalWalksCitiesWonderProtectDestructionDestroyedCharmWildernessSplendorSustenanceSalvage Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that will go up. The Democrats will swear that recovery was due to them. Now the Republicans, they'll say it was due to them. Nobody wanted to claim the credit for the country blowing up, but wait until it starts picking up and they'll both be on it then. See?” KnowsCountryWantedPoliticsWaitingSidesRepublicanClaimsDemocratCreditDuesRecoveryGet BetterSpiteSwearBoth SidesBlowing Up Author:Will Rogers
“If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.” IfsWorldNeedsWarCountryRunningPoliticalSidesResultsEconomyColdBritainBombsPoundsCold WarNatoStock Exchange Author:David Hare
“The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.” PeopleTwoCountryGovernmentTogetherThreeSidesFiveIntegrityMembersIndependentPlusCompetenceCredibilitySixteenCommissionersProfessional Competence Author:Jose Ramos-Horta
“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.” WorldCountryUseSidesViewsMankindDangerBecomingHigherCreaturesDeterminationArgumentRoseMereProfessionBeastClientsPreyGrindJurists Author:Andrew Dickson White
“It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.” ThinkingCountryBigsCausesSidesSinMistakeOne ThingPrideCornersCommitBig MistakeSin Of Pride Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.” IfsWantCountrySidesFailingLandUnderstoodRainNativeShowersNative Land Book:Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy
“When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.” ShouldSaidDifferentWarCountryReasonOrderSidesClassWillingRepublicanDemocratWarfareShrinksConcessionsUpper ClassClass WarfareLower Class Author:Howard Zinn
“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.” CountryActionJobsLastsAmericaNightOrderSidesMistakeCuttingMiddleAdventureAuthorityProgramOriginalsSouthChinaEastMessIdiotExecutivesMiddle EastAmendmentsLast NightSecond AmendmentRiflesImportsSouth AmericaExecutive OrdersAk 47 Author:L. Neil Smith
“In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.” YearsLongCountryThreeWaitingSidesTreeFieldsLateSummerRainSightTwentiesGreenUniversityCommandKitchenParksDivisionSovietThree YearsTruckAirportsAvenuesTanksCrushedColumnsAugustMoscowDrippingArmourPragueSummer Rain Author:Neal Ascherson
“The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!” WritingCountryDoneAgeTogetherNamesSidesChurchJusticeAtheismDivineSlavePositive AtheismTyrannyCrueltyWelcomeEnginesIndifferentInfidelityPreferenceOppressorsInfidelPaine Author:Frederick Douglass
“I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldTwoCountryHardStatesBigsOrderWinningSidesUnitedResultsUnited StatesHard WorkTypeBenefitsChinaBoth SidesTwo SidesWin WinTwo Countries Author:Xi Jinping
“I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.” IfsThinkingWorldCountryWould BeSidesPresidentGoneClintonChairmanBusiness WorldAllegations Author:Mark Sanford
“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.” FirstsMeanTwoCountryFacesSidesCitiesSeaSouthEastGreeceTwo SidesExtending Author:Strabo
“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.” MenChildrenMadeCountryGrowsSidesBlackDifferencesWhiteRaceClassGrowing UpInfluenceFootballHeroRacismDignityRelationImpactSilentWoodsSoccerAnalysisKicksColourCommentStereotypeTigersRace RelationsTribute Author:Pete Gill
“It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.” Has BeensCountrySeemsSidesRaceArmsWeaponsBeatsLaysJustifiedUnwillingPulpArms RaceRhetorical Author:Pat Sajak