Country Quotes

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Every country has their problems.

I love what I'm doing. But I love the USA more. And I can straighten it out. And I can truly make this country great again and nobody else can do what I do.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

With our trade deals we are always second. You can pick any country and they're eating our lunch and making us look bad and so we're going to change that.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

Mine alone is the country of my soul.

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

Ted [Cruz], you support legalizing people who are in this country illegally.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.