"But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?"

George Steinbrenner, American Businessman

Nation, Country

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"But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?"

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Nation, Nations, Right

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Nation, Country, Paris

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Nation, Rest, Will

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Nation, Country, Eyes, Feet, Man

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Nation, Country, Dying, Killing, Talk

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."

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"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody."

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"I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried."

Success

"As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased."

Family

"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."

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"I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?"

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

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"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."

"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody."

"I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried."

"I think about the next season right away."

"I will never have a heart attack. I give them."

"I haven't always made the right decisions."

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."

"As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased."

"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."

"I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?"