Country Quotes and Sayings

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that “it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams.”

There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.

Heroism on command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them.

Learn to run feeling pain: then push harder.

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content I see it shining plain The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

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

Only those who risk going too far can find out how far they can go.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.

Winners see what they can become rather than what they are.

As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the enemy die for his.

To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.

A land without ruins is a land without memories – a land without memories is a land without history.

The miracle isn’t that I finished, the miracle is that I had the courage to start.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

No one ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the enemies die for their country.

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I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.