Country Quotes and Sayings

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert Green Ingersoll

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George S. Patton

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle

In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
Turkish Proverb

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
Henry Wotton, Sr.

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

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lyn Yutang

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli

America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O Rourke

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
G. K. Chesterton

We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

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

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I don’t see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.E What message does that send our troops?E What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?
George W. Bush

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
William Hazlitt

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

The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts”…..Gerald O’Hara, Gone With The Wind.
Anonymous

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

Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don’t really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don’t have, or haven’t been able to find.
Anonymous

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we’re more like celery as a flavour.
Mike Myers

If a politician isn’t doing it to his wife , then he’s doing it to his country.”
Amy Grant

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
William Hazlitt