Country Quotes
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
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
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.William Shakespeare
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.Pierre Trudeau
What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.Joseph Addison
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
Stranger in a strange country.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.Will Rogers
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.Bertrand Russell
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.
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.Primo Levi
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.Nathan Hale
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese.Charles De Gaulle
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.Herbert Hoove
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.Neil Kinnock
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
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.Mark Twain
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
Great artists have no country.Alfred du Masset
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cather, My Antonia
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.Chitto Harjo
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
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.Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.Lord Acton
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.George Bernard Shaw
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
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
