Country Quotes

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

If it [a country] looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.