Country Quotes
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
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
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
How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?Charles De Gaulle
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.Nathan Hale
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
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
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
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.Edward Abbey
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
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
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
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
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Sir Winston Churchill
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.Hai
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is....Sinclair Lewis
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.Neil Kinnock
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
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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
Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.Nancy Davis Reagan
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.General George Patton
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
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
For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn.George Gordon Byron
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteu
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.Charles Sumne
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
The family is the country of the heart.Giuseppe Mazzini
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.Carl Schurz
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.Charles De Gaulle
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
