Country Quotes
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
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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
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
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
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.Lord Acton
We can have no 50 - 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.Teddy Roosevelt
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.Thomas Paine
Stranger in a strange country.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.Thomas Fulle
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.Pat Paulsen
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
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
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
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benne
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.Lord Acton
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.Albert Camus
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.Edward Abbey
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
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
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.Hansell B. Duckett
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.Edouard Manet
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
There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.Michael Gartne
Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.Steven Wright
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.Charles De Gaulle
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Sir Winston Churchill
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
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
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
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
