Country Quotes

Pat paulsen - assuming either the left wing or the right wing...
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteu
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If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
Daniel Webste
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Jeffery F. Chamberlain
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
Elayne Boosle
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
Where would this country be without this great land of ours?
Ronald Reagan
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
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
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
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far - Spread magazine, rules the country.
Learned Hand
Great artists have no country.
Alfred du Masset
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.
Mark Twain
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot
What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.
Charles E. Wilson
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Prove
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.
Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Charles De Gaulle
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer, The Iliad
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
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 never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Golda Mei
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
Sir Henry Wotton
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cathe
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
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.
John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
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
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
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