Quotes
Quotes about Country
I loved my country, and I hated him.
No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot.
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,--imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of--the air!"
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
My country, 't is of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain-side
Let freedom ring.
That man's the best Cosmopolite
Who loves his native country best.
Our Country,--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less,--still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.
The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
O woman-country!wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.
Earth's biggest country's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me,
This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country--I now go back there,
I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
He serves his party best who serves the country best.
One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
It's Tommy this an' Tommy that an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute,"
But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."
Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.
Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier:
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that ‘walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
