Country Quotes
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.Charles Dickens
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.Charles De Gaulle
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.Sydney Smith
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.Theodore Roosevelt
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.Eugene V. Debs
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
How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.Charles de Gaulle
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
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - - Ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.Nathan Hale
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.Edward Abbey
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
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.Elayne Boosle
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benne
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.Sinclair Lewis
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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)
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.Pierre Trudeau
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowpe
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cather, My Antonia
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.Will Rogers
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
