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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Government

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Edward Everett Hale

Country

Senators

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

Uta Hagen

Country

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

John Gunther

Idea

Country

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.