Country Quotes
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
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
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowpe
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
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
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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
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 is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.Charles E. Wilson
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
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
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.Eugene V. Debs
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.Bertrand Russell
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.Albert Camus
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
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
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.Mark Leepe
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
Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.Steven Wright
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.Hansell B. Duckett
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.Charles De Gaulle
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
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.Chitto Harjo
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
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
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.Nathan Hale
