{"quotes":[{"text":"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams.","author":"David McCullough","tags":["country","patriotism","political","service"],"id":1063,"author_id":"David+McCullough"},{"text":"The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","belief","bias","clan","country","estimate","estimated","estimation","family","funny","funny-but-true","humor","illogical","inferior","inferiority","irrational","logic","mystery","nation","nationalism","patriot","patriotic","patriotism","people","percent","percentage","pride","prideful","sarcasm","sarcastic","stat","statistic","statistics","stats","superior","superiority","true"],"id":1099,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining  but they make them artificial.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["city","country"],"id":1919,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["country","language","philosophy"],"id":2147,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.","author":"Naomi Judd","tags":["sense of humor","country "],"id":2851,"author_id":"Naomi+Judd"},{"text":"Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.","author":"Richard Burr","tags":["country","real","protect "],"id":3783,"author_id":"Richard+Burr"},{"text":"The holy country is occupied by holy citizens.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christianity","citizens","country","holy","humanity-advice","motivational","spiritual"],"id":4161,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","borders","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","country","creative-writing","democracy","elections","essay","foreign","governance","government","inspirational","international","knowledge","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","nation","novel-writing","peace","peaceful","people","philosophy","politics","power","powerful","president","prime-minister","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","republic","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","slogans","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","universe","war","wisdom","world","world-power","writing"],"id":5728,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.","author":"Herbert Hoover","tags":["america","country","patriotic","patriotism"],"id":6266,"author_id":"Herbert+Hoover"},{"text":"I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","canada-day","cape-breton","coal","country","hazardous","home","life","living","nova-scotia","patriot","pollution","steel","sydney-tar-ponds","toxic"],"id":6498,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":674,"pages":68,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}