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"We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it."
"Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers."
"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."
"America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation."
"It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country."
"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."
"The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country."
"China is a much richer country than any part of Europe."
"It [making tron: Legacy movie] was everything. I got pulled into a different country, in a different language, and a different society. In a movie, it's a completely different feel. In car design you know you have one year, and you have to go step by step. This is an organized catastrophe."
"The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all."
"England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation."
"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own."
"Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection.""
"You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment."
"A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine."
"Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought."
"A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being."
"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world."
"There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization."
"Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how."
