Country Quotes and Sayings
If a politician isn’t doing it to his wife , then he’s doing it to his country.”
Amy Grant
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
William Hazlitt
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert Green Ingersoll
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George S. Patton
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
Turkish Proverb
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
Henry Wotton, Sr.
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
Abraham Lincoln
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lyn Yutang
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms – you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli
America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O Rourke
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
G. K. Chesterton
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
Barry Humphries
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I don’t see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.E What message does that send our troops?E What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?
George W. Bush
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous – the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
William Hazlitt
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts”…..Gerald O’Hara, Gone With The Wind.
Anonymous
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour – we’re more like celery as a flavour.
Mike Myers
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.”
Swami Vivekananda
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
Mahatma Gandhi
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
Ralph Nader
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Sun Tzu
I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper
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 S. Patton
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill
A land without ruins is a land without memories – a land without memories is a land without history.
Abram Joseph Ryan
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.
Ronald Reagan
My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.
G. K. Chesterton
A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
Chinese Proverb
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
Helen Keller
I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.
Ann Landers
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.
Charles de Montesquieu
Anybody can be good in the country.
Oscar Wilde
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur