Country Quotes
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.German Prove
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
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
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
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cather, My Antonia
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.Albert Camus
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.Marquis de Lafayette
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
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.Neil Kinnock
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.Bertrand Russell
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.Lyndon B. Johnson
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.General George Patton
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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
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.Mark Twain
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn.George Gordon Byron
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.Charles De Gaulle
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.Ronald Reagan
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.Thomas Paine
Stranger in a strange country.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
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
