Country Quotes

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

Charles E. Wilson

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

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Mark Twain

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

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

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 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

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

Peter Kropotkin

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.

Charles De Gaulle

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Richard Benne

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Gartne

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of one? s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

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

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Nathan Hale

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Albert Camus

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

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 most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Lord Acton

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.

Joseph Addison

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Golda Mei

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

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs