Country Quotes

As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.

You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

Love for one's country is part of faith.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

I love my country and I love my league.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.