Country Quotes
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.Henry David Thoreau
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you.KMFDM, from "Dogma".
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.Daniel Webste
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
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
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
What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.Charles E. Wilson
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops? no, but the kind of man the country turns out.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
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
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.Benjamin Franklin
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.German Prove
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.James Baldwin
The love of one? s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?Pablo Casals
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.Edward R. Murrow
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.Clifton Fadiman
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.Will Rogers
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
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
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.Idi Amin Dada
