Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.
Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
I’m interested in what it means to be an American. I’m interested in what it means to live in America. I’m interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I’m interested in trying to define what that country is.
The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They’re all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.
Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.
Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.