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Quotes About Country

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.
~ Michael Barone
This is something which I think this country needs... I want universal coverage! I want everyone in Massachusetts and in this country to have insurance. I support universal health care.
~ Mitt Romney
I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.
~ Patty Murray
[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .
~ Rachel Maddow
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
~ Robert E. Lee
I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.
~ Robert E. Lee
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
~ Thomas Jefferson
During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.
~ Fritz Haber
Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.
~ Smedley Butler
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
~ Voltaire
Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?
~ Mort Sahl
Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
~ Merle Haggard
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
~ Laozi
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
~ Ayn Rand
I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
~ Douglas MacArthur
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
~ Gertrude Stein
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
~ Carolyn McCarthy
A great country can have no such thing as a little war.
~ Duke of Wellington
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
~ George Orwell
This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.
~ Ramsey Clark
This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.
~ Frank Church
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
~ Alice Walker
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.
~ Bashar al-Assad