Country Quotes

• England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

  

  William Cowper
  • Mind
  • England
  • Manners

• Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Failure
  • Honor

• Greenland is a wonderful country.

  

  Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
  • Country
  • Wonderful
  • Greenland

• My country tis of thee,To take swings at each other on talk-show TV.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Country

• It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.

  

  Zachary Macaulay
  • Country
  • Darkness
  • Agony

• I.B.M. was not really bringing their best technologies to India. They were dumping old machines in the country that had been thrown away in the rest of the world 10 years before.

  

  Azim Premji
  • World
  • Country
  • Rest

• I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • World
  • Music
  • America

• An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Professor

• The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

  

  William McKinley
  • Together
  • Strong
  • Justice

• We can make this country the garden of Eden.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Country
  • Garden

• I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Country
  • Knows

• I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Country
  • Honor

• Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this.

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.

  

  William James
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• "Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Men
  • Dying
  • Sacrilegious

• The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Independence
  • Breast

• People out west love country music.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
  • Country

• Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Perception
  • Economic
  • Beggar

• Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Story

• You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• '...If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist system: either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.'

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Country

• Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Country
  • Winning

• There must always be a balance between protecting privacy and security. In our country, one of the ways we have struck that balance is by requiring a court order before law enforcement can access certain communications of and data on suspects.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Country
  • Law
  • Balance

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