Quotes
Quotes about Country
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".
The cowslip is a country wench.
Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon. Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego Your future claims to each fantastic toe! Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands, Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's where I got my information about hell.".
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.
