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Quotes About Country

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
~ Edmund Morris
Whenever we engage in a war or move in on some other country, it is always to liberate somebody.
~ Edmund Wilson
Oh, my country, so foolish and dear, Scornful America, crooning a tune. Think, Think: are we immune? Catch him, catch him and stop him soon!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
~ Edouard Manet
The desert rat carries one distinction like a halo: he has learned to love the kind of country that most people find unlovable.
~ Edward Abbey
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government ' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
~ Edward Abbey
It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.
~ Edward Abbey
It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true—nobody will ever take you seriously.
~ Edward Abbey
It seems that the U.S. Government—what country is that?—has got another war going somewhere, I forget exactly where, on another continent as usual, and they want Waterman to go over there and fight for them. For IT, I mean—when did a government ever consist of human beings?
~ Edward Abbey
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~ Edward Abbey
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
~ Edward Everett
Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and… you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.
~ Edward Everett Hale
He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
~ Edward Everett Hale
My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.
~ Anonymous
I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.
~ Anonymous
There'll always be an EnglandWhile there's a country lane,Wherever there's a cottage smallBeside a field of grain.
~ Anonymous
They saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and… they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
~ Anonymous
A great name for a new country song: If I'd Shot You Sooner, I'd Be Out of Jail by Now.
~ Anonymous
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.
~ Anonymous
It's pride that puts this country down;Man, take thine old cloak about thee.
~ Anonymous
His fame was noised throughout all the country.
~ Anonymous
Dust is just a country accent.
~ Anonymous
From the halls of Montezuma,To the shores of Tripoli,We fight our country's battlesOn the land as on the sea.
~ Anonymous