Country Quotes
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.Golda Mei
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
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
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.Lord Acton
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.Sir Henry Wotton
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
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
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
The family is the country of the heart.Giuseppe Mazzini
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
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, Following the Equator (1897)
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
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
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
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.Charles E. Wilson
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
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
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.Charles Dickens
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.Edouard Manet
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.Neil Kinnock
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese.Charles De Gaulle
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you.KMFDM, from "Dogma".
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
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
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
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
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
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
