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"With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing."
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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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"To them, the real United States is just flyover country."
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"From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore."
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"They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country."
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"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce."
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"I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom."
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"What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House."
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"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."
Country
"We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation."
Food
"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."
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"With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing."
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"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
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"In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food."
Food
"The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent."
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