Quotes About Country

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3 000 miles across country?

Black understood something that so many in our country still do not: that low prices, brought on by deflation in the days of the Great Depression or by the globalization of the twenty-first century, cannot substitute for an economy that puts its emphasis on job creation and good wages.

This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.

It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

If we all packed our suitcases and boarded planes, what would be left of our country? If we bowed our heads and stayed quietly at home, permitting them to say that Islam allowed the assassination of writers and the execution of teenagers, what would be left of our faith?

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

What we need in this country today is leadership which has the courage to call for income tax reform to put the burden where it must be placed, on those who can afford to pay. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

most delightful time in the most beautiful country in the company of Tonantius Ferreolus (the elder) and Apollinaris, the most charming hosts in the world

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

Jacob, it's John Watkins … Where are you …?' He listened as he sped along the country roads. 'Well, I'm sorry, but you'll have to make your apologies and leave. Meet me at your office as soon as you can … Yes, it is an emergency. I have hugely radioactive rocks that need a safe house … Now. Can you do that? They might be responsible for one death already … Yes, really … Thanks, see you in a bit.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.