Country Quotes
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
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
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
Great artists have no country.Alfred du Masset
Stranger in a strange country.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
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
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
America is a young country with an old mentality.George Santayana
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.Bertrand Russell
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.German Prove
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.Edouard Manet
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
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
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.Sir Henry Wotton
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
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.Carl Schurz
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
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
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
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
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops? no, but the kind of man the country turns out.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
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
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.Thomas Paine
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.Thomas Fulle
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
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 England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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 F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
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
