Quotes About Country

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

America is a white man's country.

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.