"Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State."
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"The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it."
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"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."
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"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
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"And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?"
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"Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is."
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
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"Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great."
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"Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet."
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
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"The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
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"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
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"There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape."
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"The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry."
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"It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run."
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"Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
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"In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world."
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"Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all."
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