I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what’s happening, I think, is that that need – which is a good thing – is getting manipulated and exploited.
It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
What would this country be without this great land of ours.
I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.
Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.
We’re more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.
Muhammad says, ‘Love of one’s country is a part of the faith.’ But don’t take that literally! Your real ‘country’ is where you’re heading, not where you are. Don’t misread that hadith.
Your real “country” is where you’re heading, not where you are.
In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
What kind of country is this where a woman can’t weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!