Country Quotes - page 3

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. (Elbert Hubbard)
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. View quote
Winston Churchill
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. View quote
Saul Bellow
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. View quote
John Barrymore
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. View quote
Abdul Kalam
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. View quote
Tony Blair
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. View quote
Bob Newhart
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. (Billie Holiday)
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. View quote
Daniel Webster
Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. View quote
Martin Van Buren
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. View quote
Thomas Paine
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. View quote
Thomas Paine
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. (W. Somerset Maugham)
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. View quote
M. H. Abrams