Quotes
Quotes about Country
...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.
The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
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.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
