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.
Confucius

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

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
D.H. Lawrence

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.”
Swami Vivekananda

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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.
Albert Einstein

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
Ralph Nader

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

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

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
General George S. Patton

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
Abram Joseph Ryan

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

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.
Johnny Depp

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
Helen Keller

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.
Ann Landers

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.
Charles de Montesquieu

Anybody can be good in the country.
Oscar Wilde

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.
Ronald Reagan

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.
G. K. Chesterton

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