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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

Government, Grow, Exercise

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

Time, Government, Patriotism

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

Hope, Strength, Government

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam

Teacher, Beautiful, Mother

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Sleep, Justice

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

Poverty, Wealth, Ashamed

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Government, Loyalty, Deserves

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

God, Freedom, Conscience

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

Greatest, Healthy, Asset

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

Hope, Forward, Enough

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

Learn, Here, Leave

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

Everything, Opinion, Public

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Woman, Problems

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Corruption, Show

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Morning, School, True

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Power, Government, Forget

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent

Today, Bad, Children

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

America, Between, Barbarism

If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Thomas Jefferson

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

Fire, Advice, English

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Enough, Blood

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson

Strong, Stand, Draw

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama

Thinking, Sometimes, Vote

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill

Great, Greatest, Dark

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

Time, Home, Government

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

Fight, Moment, Her

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson

May, Another, Nation

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Age, Liberty, Priest

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