Quotes about count
country war lying
I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do. Michael Moore
country heart thinking
I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film. Michael Moore
country war administration
A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration. Michael Moore
country couple giving-up
We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years. Michael Moore
country gun democracy
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. Michael Moore
country cuba healthcare
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. Michael Moore
country differences making-a-difference
I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. Michael Moore
country rooms born
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. Theodore Roosevelt
country religious men
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office. Theodore Roosevelt
country pride men
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor. Theodore Roosevelt
country home honor
The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad. Theodore Roosevelt
country revolution sometimes
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill Theodore Roosevelt
country children cities
The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. Theodore Roosevelt
country people feel-good
90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good". Theodore Roosevelt
country children people
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. Theodore Roosevelt
country stars military
We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes! Theodore Roosevelt
country optimism excess
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. Theodore Roosevelt
country fate men
When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country. Theodore Roosevelt
country peace humanity
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. Theodore Roosevelt
country believe mean
Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable. Theodore Roosevelt
country men allegiance
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. Theodore Roosevelt
country men jail
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country. Theodore Roosevelt
country animal reality
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination. Theodore Roosevelt
country interesting people
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. Theodore Roosevelt
country nature children
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. Theodore Roosevelt
country would-be way
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. Theodore Roosevelt
country patriotic years
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. Theodore Roosevelt
country truth mean
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
country men wife
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. Theodore Roosevelt
country men blood
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
country eye greatness
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness. Theodore C. Sorensen
country art pride
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? Theodore Bikel
country risk age
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. Theodore Bikel