Country Quotes

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Gartne

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

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

Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

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

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

Marquis de Lafayette

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR

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

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

Willa Sibert Cathe

For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.

Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

Gerald R. Ford

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

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman

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

The love of one? s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

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

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776

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

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

German Prove

Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Nathan Hale

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

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

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

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

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

General George Patton

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn.

George Gordon Byron

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

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

George W. Bush

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

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Mark Twain

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln