Country Quotes
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.Pat Paulsen
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
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
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.Homer, The Iliad
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.Charles De Gaulle
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
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
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.Nancy Davis Reagan
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.Primo Levi
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.Neil Kinnock
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far - Spread magazine, rules the country.Learned Hand
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
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
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)
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)
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
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
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
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
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
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.James Baldwin
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
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
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
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.Herbert Hoove
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
