Country Quotes
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - - Ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.Mark Twain
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.Nathan Hale
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteu
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.Theodore Roosevelt
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure.Lyndon B. Johnson
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.Will Rogers
I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.Lyndon B. Johnson
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.Mark Twain
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cathe
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping.Jeff Melvoin
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.George Eliot
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.Charles De Gaulle
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.Plato
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowpe
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.Charles Sumne
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.Charles Dickens
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.Benjamin Harrison
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.General George Patton
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.Charles E. Wilson
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
