Country Quotes
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.Daniel Webste
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
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
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
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
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
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
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
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
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
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.Edouard Manet
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
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
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
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
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
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
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.General George Patton
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.Margaret Mead
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
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
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping.Jeff Melvoin
What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.Charles E. Wilson
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.Lord Acton
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
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.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.Golda Mei
