Country Quotes - page 5

God made the country, and man made the town. (William Cowper)
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. View quote
Leon Trotsky
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. View quote
Will Durant
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there. View quote
Mickey Spillane
In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. [...] In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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.' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. (Texas Guinan)
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. View quote
William Howard Taft
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. View quote
James A. Michener
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes! View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Everything I did, I did for my country. View quote
Pol Pot
Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. View quote
David Hilbert
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. View quote
Golda Meir
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. (Desiderius Erasmus)
Two things form the bedrock of any open society-freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat. View quote
Will Rogers
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. View quote
Colm Tóibín