Country Quotes

Thomas jefferson, notes on the state of virginia - denouncing the evils of slavery - indeed, i tremble for my country when i reflect...
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Sydney Smith
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Prove
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
Francois marie arouet voltaire - the first who was king was a fortunate soldier...
Charles de gaulle - how can you govern a country which has 246...
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
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 not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer, The Iliad
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
Ivan Pavlov
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
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.
Barry Schwartz
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
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
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
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
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Sibert Cathe
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Charles Dickens
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
Sir Henry Wotton
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
Daniel Webste
The family is the country of the heart.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles De Gaulle
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
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
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Charles De Gaulle
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 this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire