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  • You annex foreign land, not your own country. -- Menachem Begin
  • It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more. -- Tessanne Chin
  • I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country. -- Johnny Weir
  • It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation. -- Hasan M. Elahi
  • If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. -- Vladimir Putin
  • If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences. -- Garry Kasparov
  • In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. -- Bill Bryson
  • Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them. -- Kelly Reilly
  • Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like. -- Claire Denis
  • Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? -- Wallace Shawn
  • There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!' -- Carl Hiaasen
  • To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope. -- Jürgen Moltmann
  • To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope. -- Jürgen Moltmann
  • If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else. -- Alaa Al Aswany
  • When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country. -- Nhat Hanh
  • If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties? -- Viktor Orban
  • If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I think living in a new country gives you a certain bravery that you don't have when you live in your own country - because of the freedom it gives you. -- Juliet Aubrey
  • It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you. -- Cate Blanchett
  • There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look! -- Carl Hiaasen
  • There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them. -- Debby Ryan
  • Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind of distractions! Abstract yourself from all the primitivenesses surrounding you! Concentrate on your work! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties. -- Giles Foden
  • If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility. -- Beyers Naudé
  • Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country. -- Fanny Fern
  • I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians. -- Stephen Harper
  • Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches! -- Geert Wilders
  • You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green. -- Shalom Harlow
  • Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country. -- William J. Clinton
  • Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. -- Michelle Obama
  • The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process. -- Kal Penn
  • It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research. -- Frank Press
  • Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it. -- Michael Apted
  • This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault. -- Sam Huff
  • Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own. -- Terry Tempest Williams
  • The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak. -- Warwick Thornton
  • You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country. -- William J. Clinton
  • Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific. -- Gene Simmons
  • When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk. -- Caroline Glick
  • Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own. -- John Prine
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