Quotes About Country

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

This Medal of Honor does not belong to me. This medal belongs to every man and woman who has ever served their country. We were doing what we were trained to do. We were doing our job.

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?

Something happens everywhere in this country Every day. Someone is praying, someone is prey.

The Crow country is good country. The Great Spirit has put it exactly in the right place; while you are in it you fare well; whenever you go out of it, which ever way you travel, you fare worse . . . There is no country like Crow country. —ARAPOOSH, CROW, 1833

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The King's private, and preferred, life was that of a country squire. In cultural or intellectual pursuits he had no interest whatsoever; he loathed travel. George V was never happier than when shooting at Balmoral or at Sandringham.

The oikophobe does not want sharia or Aztec human sacrifice, or any other foreign custom, in his own country. What he wants is power within it, and oikophobia is an instrument to achieve it by delegitimizing those he thinks already have it. He wants to replace one ruling class, as he sees it, with another – his own.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.