Country Quotes

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

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

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Albert Camus

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

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

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

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

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

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

Edward Abbey

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

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

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

Mark Twain

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

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

Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you.

KMFDM, from "Dogma".

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

Golda Mei

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

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

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

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994

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

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

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Homer, The Iliad

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

Jeffery F. Chamberlain

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

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

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

Bertrand Russell

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Lord Acton

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

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Pat Paulsen

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fulle