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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970), in "Les Mots du General", 1962
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
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German Proverb
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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Pat Paulsen
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
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Jeffery F. Chamberlain
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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