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“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy”
“Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.”
“Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!”
“Events went on to show that it is not by chance that a prime minister reaches such lofty heights and that, as the infallible wisdom of nations has demonstrated time and time again, each country get...”
“It was a country life, a precious existence.”
“Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don’t have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians,...”
“If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing”
“It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.”
“People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.”
“It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.”
“A killer is someone who killed another without their country’s permission.”
“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.”
“Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly.”
“The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.”
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
“In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.”