Country Quotes
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
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.Pierre Trudeau
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
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
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cather, My Antonia
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962
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
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
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
A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.George Walden
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
The family is the country of the heart.Giuseppe Mazzini
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn.George Gordon Byron
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
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
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.Charles de Gaulle
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
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.Charles De Gaulle
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.G. K. Chesterton
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese.Charles De Gaulle
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.Golda Mei
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
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.Jeffery F. Chamberlain
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
The man who prefers his country before any other 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
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cathe
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.Golda Mei
