Country Quotes

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
Thomas fulle - know most of the rooms of thy native country...
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
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.
Charles De Gaulle
John fitzgerald kennedy - and so, my fellow americans, ask not what your...
Hai - the draft is white people sending black people to...
The family is the country of the heart.
Giuseppe Mazzini
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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
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
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cathe
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Sibert Cathe
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
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
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer, The Iliad
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
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
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.
Mark Twain
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
Richard Benne
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
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
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
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
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
Neil Kinnock
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
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
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.
George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
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
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops? no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
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
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Charles Dickens
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.
Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death