“Each country on this list uses at least nine of the 17 benchmarks.”
Ann Cooper
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
