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1 " It’s time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny. "
― F.H. Buckley
2 " The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free. "
― Paul Monette , Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
3 " America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. "
― Oscar Wilde
4 " I was born near Slonim. I saw my home taken over by the Germans, my sister raped by the Russians and later I escaped from a Russian labour camp and was lucky enough to reach America. I'm not mad. This is the only country in the world where you can arrive with nothing and become a millionaire though damned hard work regardless of your background. "
― Jeffrey Archer , Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
5 " Jefferson, who spent his life collecting books, many of which he donated to the Library of Congress, boasted that America was the only country whose farmers read Homer. “A native of America who cannot read or write,” said John Adams, “is as rare an appearance . . . as a Comet or an Earthquake. "
― Azar Nafisi , The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
6 " Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech... "
7 " South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market. "
― Amanda M. Lyons , Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
8 " Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics. "
9 " France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. "
10 " Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it. "
11 " We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? "
