"Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's."
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"I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause."
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"Who is here so vile that will not love his country?"
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"In right and service to their noble country."
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"'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd."
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"When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?"
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"I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true."
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"Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you."
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"Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off."
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"Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have."
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"The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country."
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"There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back."
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"I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice."
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"Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?"
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"A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party."
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"I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!"
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"When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland."
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"My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings."
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"The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants."
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"I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years."
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