Quotes
Quotes about Country
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand Beyond the river I-forget. One crosses by a single stone So narrow one must pass alone, And all about its waters fret-- The laughing river I-forget.
Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France! O, ma patrie La plus cherie, Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance! Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass's fall.
God made the country and man made the town.
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ...
Every country has the government it deserves.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.
Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
