Quotes About Country

Only surrender could save her people-as well as spare the country civil war.

What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3

A while back I heard bears have to stick leaves up their arse to stop ants crawling up there and biting them! I know the world is getting overpopulated but it isn't that crowded that things have to live up an arse. No wonder Paddington Bear left Peru for London. When you've got bears wanting to leave the country it makes me wonder what I'm doing here.

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

Ursula found it very odd to think that up above them there were German bombers being flown by men who, essentially, were just like Teddy. They weren't evil, they were just doing what had been asked of them by their country. It was war itself that was evil, not men. Although she would make an exception for Hitler.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

There is no country that has the best men.