Country Quotes
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
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.George Bernard Shaw
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
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
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
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?Benjamin Franklin
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
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
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
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
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
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.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
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
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.Nathan Hale
Great artists have no country.Alfred du Masset
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
Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.Will Rogers
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.Eugene V. Debs
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.Sir Henry Wotton
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.Henry David Thoreau
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
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.Golda Mei
Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.Steven Wright
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
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese.Charles De Gaulle
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping.Jeff Melvoin
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.Thomas Paine
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
