Country Quotes

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

Oppression makes a poor country.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.