Country Quotes
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Sir Winston Churchill
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.Hansell B. Duckett
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 past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.Will Rogers
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteu
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.Pat Paulsen
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
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
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
The man who prefers his country before any other 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
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)
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.General George Patton
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country.John F Kennedy
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
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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 hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far - Spread magazine, rules the country.Learned Hand
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cather, My Antonia
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
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
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
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
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
What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.Joseph Addison
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.Edward R. Murrow
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.Lyndon B. Johnson
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
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
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
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.Albert Camus
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
