Quotes About Country

All the six hundred and fifty-eight members in the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; who are strong lovers no doubt, but of their country only, which makes all the difference; for in a passion of that kind (which is not always returned), it is the custom to use as many words as possible, and express nothing whatever.

Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa.

To encourage Literature & the Arts, is a duty which every good Citizen owes to his Country...

If all the economists in this country were laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion.

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you, that by striving to perfect yourselves therein, you may prepare to ascend to him.

There are instincts that are deeper than anything else — deeper than death — and of these the strongest is the instinct of country that men call patriotism. Perhaps patriotism is the splendid spur by which the gods achieve their ends. I don't know. But nothing is so dominating, so powerful, as this patriotism.

I think there's one higher office than president, and I would call that patriot...

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

But the glory of the United States must rest and has rested upon a firmer foundation than that of her purely material resources. It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

To-day we reverently thank the abolitionists. Earth has produced no grander men, no nobler women. They were the real philanthropists, the true patriots... heroes. He loves his country best who strives to make it best. Mere politicians wish the country to do something for them, true patriots desire to do something for their country... [P]atriotism without principle is the prejudice of birth — the animal attachment to place.

In our own glad and fortunate country the seasons are known by their respective dominant pies — for each there is an appropriate pie, with apple pie for all the year round... The perfect days of June welcome the lip-painting berry pies... Then, as nature paints the forests with her magic brush, comes in the golden glory of the year, the royal pumpkin pie!

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

BUCK: Can you give a definition of an orator? PRIVATE: Sure. He's a fellow that's always ready to lay down your life for his country.

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

As the country so the proverb.

Sharp! yes, her tongue is like a new-set razor. She's quite original in her talk too; one of those untaught wits that help to stock a country with proverbs. I told you that capital thing I heard her say about Craig—that he was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. Now that's an Æsop's fable in a sentence.

If you want to make a revolution in the United States, you have to love this country enough to change it.

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

This is our country, and this is our past, and we are the present, and these young people are the future.

I beg your pardon," Philip interposed stiffly, now put upon his mettle. "We have no taboos at all in England. ... England, you must remember, is a civilized country, and taboos are institutions that belong the lowest and most degraded savages.

He'd never been lectured on Darwinism in any brothel back home, but then what could he expect in a country run by godless socialists?