Country Quotes

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.

He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.