Country Quotes

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 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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people under one God saluting one American flag.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

I believe that we should stop the immigration, the mass immigration from Islamic countries.

It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

Now I've wrestled alotta countries!

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.