Quotes About Country

You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.

Dolly Parton is hilarious. Loretta Lynn is hilarious.

We are lucky in Chapel Hill to have the most brilliant medical people anywhere in the country.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

Nothing that could be got from the heart of the earth could have been put to better purposes than the silver the king's miners got for him. There were people in the country who, when it came into their hands, degraded it by locking it up in a chest, and then it grew diseased and was called mammon, and bred all sorts of quarrels; but when first it left the king's hands it never made any but friends, and the air of the world kept it clean.

For the country was so rejoiced at the death of the giants, and so many of their lost friends had been restored to the nobility and men of wealth, that the gladness surpassed the grief. Ye have indeed left your lives to your people, my great brothers!

I should be ill," she continued, "if I did not live on the borders of the fairies' country, and now and then eat of their food. And I see by your eyes that you are not quite free of the same need; though, from your education and the activity of your mind, you have felt it less than I. You may be further removed too from the fairy race.

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

En este país la cobardía intelectual es el peor enemigo al que tiene que enfrentarse un escritor o periodista, y ese hecho no parece haber recibido la atención que merece.

So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of our country may be endangered before he can be replaced by a man of sense. How hard, in order to save the country, to sustain a man who is incompetent.

So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of our country may be endangered before he can be replaced by a man of sense. How hard, in order to save the country, to sustain a man who is incompetent. In "Lincoln Reconsidered," by David Herbert Donald, letter from George Bancroft to Francis Lieber.

Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country. (Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004)

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.

no punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin

The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.

you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

They were reorganizing, as they called it. In the silence of their offices, well-educated, well-brought-up young men from the best families in the country were examining all sides of the matter in a quest for greater efficiency. What emerged from their learned cogitations were hare-brained schemes that found expression every week in new rules.

Next you will say that you don't intend to have more than one house in the country!' 'Nay, I shan't say that! I want one in Leicestershire.' 'Oh, in that case there's no more to be said, for I've set my heart on one in the moon!' 'You don't mean that, love! Nay then, you can't have thought!' he expostulated. 'It's much too far from town!