Quotes About Country

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

I was a spy. I was trusted. Until I changed sides. Funny how that happens. I gave up one country for another. One country for an ideal. I didn't think of it that way at the time. Call me crazy. But I just wanted to be free.

He hoped and prayed that God had a special place for soldiers of any religion, of any country, of any age, who trusted so much their leaders and their cause.

In the world's most dangerous country, the job of going after Pablo was the most dangerous position of all.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

to the party is more important than fidelity to the country. It holds these characteristics in common with other autocratic and communist parties throughout the world.

Gandhi noted also that violent revolutions almost always end in repressive dictatorships. Once the rebel troops gain control, they naturally keep acting as they're used to—in other words, they start running the country like a military camp.

this is the mirror in which pain is asleep this is the country nobody visits

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.