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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
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"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."
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"A wise traveler never depreciates their own country."
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"I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well."
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"I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country."
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"There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country."
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"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
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"One's life has many compartments."
Life

"The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay."
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"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
Government

"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
Being

"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
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"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
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