Country Quotes

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Cassandra,” he said, “I hope you know that poaching Muppets is illegal in this country.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

As a woman, I have no country

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

I LOVE Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries.

My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.