Country Quotes

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

Stranger in a strange country.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

I ran [for presidency] because I knew what trouble our country was in.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!