Country Quotes

Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.

Nancy Davis Reagan

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

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Golda Mei

The family is the country of the heart.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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

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

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cathe

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Mark Twain

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Idi Amin Dada

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.

Joseph Addison

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.

Carl Schurz

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

No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.

Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

Thomas Paine

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

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

Edouard Manet

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

Charles E. Wilson

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Golda Mei

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

Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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)

How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?

Charles De Gaulle

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Garry Trudeau

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

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.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Richard Benne

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

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

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

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

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.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Prove

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Charles De Gaulle

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Homer, The Iliad