"The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously."

-- Julian Barnes

#Country Quotes

“You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.”
“You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.”
“Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.”
“Now everyone has a license to speak, itâ€™s a question of who gets heard.”
“There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.”
“the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.”
“To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.”
“Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.”

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