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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."

"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness."

"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."

"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."
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"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."

"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."

"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."

"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."

"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."

"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
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