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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

Ralph Boston, American Athlete

Nation, Country, Feeling

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

Harry S. Truman, American President

Nation, Country, Teaching, Today, World

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Nation, Country

"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

Jane Byrne, American Politician

Nation,

"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."

J. D. Hayworth, American Politician

Nation, Country, Security

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Nation, Country, Dignity, Importance, Office

"There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States."

Ron Chernow, American Author

Nation, Country, States, United, World

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Nation, Country, Woman, World

"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."

Andrew Johnson, American President

Nation, Country, End

"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

Nation, Countries, Freedom, President

Explore more quotes by Peter Bichsel

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Poems

"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."

Creativity

"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

Language

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

Literature

"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

People

"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."

Literature

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Heart

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

Ambition

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

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