Country Quotes
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.Hansell B. Duckett
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
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
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.Benjamin Franklin
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.Scarface
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.Mark Twain
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
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
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.Golda Mei
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
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cather, My Antonia
What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.Joseph Addison
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
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
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
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.General George Patton
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
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
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
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.Charles De Gaulle
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benne
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
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
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
