Quotes
Quotes about Country
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, not I. If I must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.
The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road. The night was dark and stormy, But blithe of heart were they, For shining in the distance The lights of London lay. O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown; What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town!
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.
There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing. To wander along by the wind-beaten hill. But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.
Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. - Thomas W. Higginson,
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]
Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
