In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
ConfuciusWhere liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin FranklinI believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve MartinI know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de TocquevilleI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltA wise traveler never despises his own country.
William HazlittCity people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason CooleyIt 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 of them.
Mark TwainA house in the country is not the same as a country house.
Gertrude SteinPatriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard ShawThis country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will RogersAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel JohnsonIn the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.
W. Somerset MaughamHere on the pulse of this new day, You may have the grace to look up and out, And into your sister's eyes into, Your brother's face your country, And say simply, Very simply, With hope, Good Morning.
Maya AngelouI'm just a simple country girl.
Dolly PartonAsk not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson WellesPublic opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham LincolnTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous HuxleyAny woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret ThatcherI don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless, this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. Secondly I believe if you vote you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around
George CarlinHaving trust and faith in your own country, you won't try to put down any other country.
Sai BabaA man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore RooseveltDo not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.
Winston ChurchillHealthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have
Winston ChurchillGive up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.
ChanakyaI love America more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Arthur BaldwinAmerica is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John BarrymoreA dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state.
William BlakeThe first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard KiplingA countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin FranklinThe brave man inattentive to his duty is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew JacksonGo to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man's feet should be planted in his country but his eyes should survey the world.
George SantayanaPatriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainGetting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald TrumpAmerica is a young country with an old mentality.
George SantayanaEach country is but a room in the mansion of GOD.
Sai BabaAmerica is a country that doesn't know where it is going, but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. PeterI suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
Simone WeilIt is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Arthur BaldwinDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthurAmerica is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar WildeNo protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de TocquevilleAny cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir LeninI do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today, which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. TrumanAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude SteinLoyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainAre you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first then you are a parasite, if the second then you are an oasis in the desert.
Kahlil GibranUpon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin DisraeliI realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
Alice WalkerI was only the servant of my country and had I at any moment failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston ChurchillWe're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald ReaganDo not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.
Sai BabaCross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven WrightI have no other view than to promote the public good and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George WashingtonAnybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar WildeEgypt is a large, complex, very important country.
Hillary ClintonThe spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Thomas JeffersonIf we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; And if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honor.
William ShakespeareI know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack ObamaI report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength, our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. JohnsonEvery good citizen makes his country's honor his own and cherishes it, not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense, and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew JacksonThis country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham LincolnI have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. BushI think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Alice WalkerI 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 WayneBarack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.
Rush LimbaughGreat tragedy has come to us and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
George W. BushA great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin FranklinI don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry A. KissingerI know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
George W. Bush'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.'
Gilbert K. ChestertonClass is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
Paul RyanI would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
George W. BushNo nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin FranklinBack a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Ron PaulI think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals and fairs and karaoke contests and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Taylor SwiftI understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
George W. BushBarack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
Rush LimbaughJohn F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few, but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
Joan RiversHe's helping to protect our country ... It's a chance for me to give back. I'm deeply honored to be here. It goes beyond words. To request my presence to be here it's unbelievable.
Kobe BryantFinland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
P. J. O'RourkeAnd in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
Michelle ObamaIn the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack Obama