Quotes on Country

I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it's there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Our country needs more people who listen, think for themselves, and treat each other with respect.

Changing communities and changing our country is going to last a lot longer than how many footballs you catch or how many touchdowns you make.

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.

Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.

Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

We got a chance to represent Black country artists for younger Black kids who want to do country but don't feel anyone out there looks like them.

Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

We need to hire more black police officers in this country because these are good jobs, and African Americans should have their fair share of good jobs. But we shouldn't do it because we think that's going to change policing. We have to push for police reform in other ways.