Quotes
Quotes about Country
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. - Daniel Webster,
Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.
10 million people marched against the war on 5 continents in the most united opposition to war ever seen in history. Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
