Country Quotes
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
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)
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
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benne
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far - Spread magazine, rules the country.Learned Hand
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
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.Pat Paulsen
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.George W. Bush
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
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.George Burns
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
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
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
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
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
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.Edward R. Murrow
A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.George Walden
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.Aldous Huxley
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese.Charles De Gaulle
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.Charles De Gaulle
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.General George Patton
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
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
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.Mark Twain
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
How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.Charles de Gaulle
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
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
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.G. K. Chesterton
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
