Country Quotes
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.General George Patton
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.Edouard Manet
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.Thomas Jefferson
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
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.Scarface
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
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 F. Kennedy
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
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese.Charles De Gaulle
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, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
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.
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
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
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
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
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
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)
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
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)
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
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
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.Charles Dickens
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.Theodore Roosevelt
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.Pat Paulsen
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.Will Rogers
I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition
