USA Quotes
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All right. I’m corny. But I think there’s just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
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Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.
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The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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There is not a man in the country that can’t make a living for himself and family. But he can’t make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.
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It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.
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If you can’t get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
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The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.
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When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, ‘You mean besides George Jones?’
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Where liberty is, there is my country.