Country Quotes
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
Where would this country be without this great land of ours?Ronald Reagan
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
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.Albert Camus
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
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
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
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
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
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.Lyndon B. Johnson
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
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, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
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
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
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.Aldous Huxley
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
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.Franklin Delano 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
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.Pierre Trudeau
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.Mark Twain
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
What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.Joseph Addison
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
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.William Shakespeare
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
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
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
