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True Patriots All; For Be It Understood We Left Our Country For Our Country's Good.
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True patriots all; for be it understood
We left our country for our country's good.
-- George Barrington (1755-c. 1840)
-- Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house
-- at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796
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They [South Africa] have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own country -- the type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertainment and so forth were segregated -- that has all been eliminated.
-- President Reagan, 1985...
Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba...
What George Washington did for us was to throw out the British, so that we wouldn't have a fat, insensitive government running our country.
Nice try anyway, George. -- D.J. on KSFO/KYA...
What George Washington did for us was to throw out the British, so that we wouldn't have a fat, insensitive government running our country.
Nice try anyway, George." -- D.J. on KSFO/KYA...
The following appeared in a memo from the economic minister of the small country Paucia.
"Using a newly developed variety of seed, farmers in our neighboring country Abundia produced 80 percent more rice last year than in any previous year....
Our country is the world; our countrymen are all mankind.
-- William Lloyd Garrison (1804-1879) -- Prospectus of the Liberator, Dec. 15, 1837...
George Washington, father of our country. George Washington, when he was just a child, just a boy, honesty was his trademark.
The classic story we all remember was when George Washington's father came up to George and said, "George Washington--father of our country--my son--I want to ask you a question....
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazard
and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. -- Samuel Adam...
Ned: Thank you so much, Homer. You're a true friend.
Homer: Right back at you, buddy. Now how about that game at the Pitch'N'Putt?...