Country Quotes
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
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.Aldous Huxley
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.Mark Twain
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
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
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.Thomas Fulle
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
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
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.Jeffery F. Chamberlain
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.Charles Dickens
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
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.Pat Paulsen
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.Pierre Trudeau
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.Thomas Paine
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
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
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.Eugene V. Debs
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.Margaret Hilda Thatche
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.Daniel Webste
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
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
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)
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
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
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.Charles De Gaulle
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
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you.KMFDM, from "Dogma".
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
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
Stranger in a strange country.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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
