Country Quotes

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
Harry s truman, august 8, 1950 - once a government is committed to the principle...
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
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
Carl schurz - our country, right or wrong. when right, to be...
Andrew lang - you can cover a great deal of country in books....
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.
Charles De Gaulle
The love of one? s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
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
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
Neil Kinnock
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Lord Acton
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Richard Jeni
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
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
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Charles Dickens
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping.
Jeff Melvoin
For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn.
George Gordon Byron
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
Hai
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Thomas Fulle
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
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
Edouard Manet
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
Richard Benne
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery
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
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George Patton
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.
Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death