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country home thinking
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. C. S. Lewis
country thinking light
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes. C. S. Lewis
country people want
Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that. Mike Wallace
country elevated half people putting talked
We've talked about putting in another roadway, but it's one of those things that's 50/50 -- half of the people want an elevated roadway and the other half want to keep the country country.
country crime gun hands statistic stopped
We've stopped 500,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers from getting their hands on guns, ... And the most important statistic is that gun crime in the country is down 35 percent.
country real government
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise. Calvin Coolidge
country responsibility government
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility. Calvin Coolidge
country men safety
It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man. Calvin Coolidge
country president addresses
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address. Calvin Coolidge
country men law
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men Calvin Coolidge
country business
The business of the country is business. Calvin Coolidge
country opportunity government
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. Calvin Coolidge
country vision common
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. Calvin Coolidge
country teaching 4th-of-july
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. Calvin Coolidge
country 4th-of-july mean
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. Calvin Coolidge
country people taxation
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free. Calvin Coolidge
country mean men
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form. Calvin Coolidge
country evil way
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. Calvin Coolidge
country opportunity swings
The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility. Calvin Coolidge
country military people
Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people. Calvin Coolidge
country brother airplane
There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots. Burt Rutan
country years space
In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries Burt Rutan
country children cities
We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time. Bryant H. McGill
country extremes other-countries
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries. Bryant H. McGill
country mean car
Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married. Celia Rivenbark
country roots important
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me. Celine Dion
country opportunity race
As a singer, I've had many opportunities to travel, and one thing I've learned is that through my music, I can be accepted by people all over the world. I often wonder why so many of us can't accept people who are different here, in our country? It's just not fair to be prejudiced against those whose race, religion or colour aren't the same as ours. Celine Dion
country dog america
Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries. Cesar Millan
country fighting ideas
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes. Cesar Chavez
country ironic abundance
(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves. Cesar Chavez
country issues gold
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. Carroll Quigley
country government banking
Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world. Carroll Quigley
country fashion agreement
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. Carroll Quigley