Country Quotes

Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.

We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Loving own country is to love peace

All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.