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
What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.Charles E. Wilson
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
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.Daniel Webste
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.Margaret Mead
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
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
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
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
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benne
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.Victor Hugo
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.Homer, The Iliad
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
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
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
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 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
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.Marquis de Lafayette
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
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
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you.KMFDM, from "Dogma".
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
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
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.Senator Soape
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.Thomas Paine
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
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
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
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.Will Rogers
