Country Quotes - page 2

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. View quote
George S. Patton
So long as you are ready to die for Humanity, the life of your country is immortal. View quote
Giuseppe Mazzini
America is my country and Paris is my hometown. View quote
Gertrude Stein
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. View quote
Emil Cioran
The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. View quote
Samuel Adams
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. View quote
Lily Tomlin
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. (Orson Welles)
An author's first duty is to let down his country. View quote
Brendan Behan
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. View quote
Bertrand Russell
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. View quote
Federico García Lorca
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. View quote
Clint Eastwood
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. View quote
Will Rogers
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. View quote
Will Rogers
A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms. (Marlene Dietrich)
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. View quote
Nathan Hale
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. View quote
Idi Amin
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. View quote
Louis Brandeis
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. View quote
Toni Morrison