Country Quotes

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love.

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

If you're callin' about my heart, it's still yours.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

My heart's never smiled so hard Baby. Lovin' you is fun.

The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.