Country Quotes

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. (Seneca)
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. View quote
Confucius
In a well-governed country, speak boldly and act boldly. In a country where lawlessness prevails, let your actions be bold but your speech tactful. View quote
Confucius
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. View quote
John F. Kennedy
This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. View quote
Fidel Castro
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. View quote
George Burns
Lovely and honorable is to die for one's country. View quote
Horace
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. View quote
Mel Brooks
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. (Millard Fillmore)
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme. View quote
Howard Carter
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. View quote
E. M. Forster
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. View quote
George W. Bush
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. View quote
George Orwell
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
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 of them. View quote
Mark Twain
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. View quote
Arthur Miller
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. (Edward Abbey)
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe. View quote
Andrew Jackson
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. View quote
Frank Zappa
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. View quote
George Eliot