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“In this country it is considered wise to kill an admiral from time to time in order to encourage the others”
Voltaire
“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
Maya Angelou
“"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams”
Sam Adams
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
Thomas Paine
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks. (January 26, 1983)”
Ronald Reagan
“An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.”
Henry Wotton Sr.
“Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling”
Abraham Lincoln
“Well, India is a country of nonsense”
Mahatma Gandhi