Quotes About Country

This is our country, too, and we can goddam well control it if we learn to use the tools. —HST, 1969

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Of the Wobblies, most probably, but not just them. Of hope, perhaps, that her country might rise to the challenge, might override the legacies of slavery, Indian slaughters, and tenement squalor and actually place itself at the forefront of human progress.

When I was about Walter's age, I remember asking my father why one's country should demand more loyalty than friends, family, or conscience, and seeing the look of surprise on his face when he found he lacked a convincing answer.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American.

Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: "At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our own country, it is our right to the moral leadership of this planet." The sentence absolutely appalled all the younger Robert Kennedy advisers, who felt it smacked of just the kind of attitude which had gotten us into Vietnam. Nonetheless, despite their protests, it stayed in the speech.

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment...Where the country could very well shut down and die, and it won't be anybody else doin' it to us, we will have done it to ourselves.

I did it, Mrs. Maycott, because I am a patriot, and if a man loves his country he must uphold the principles of that country even if doing so may make him uncomfortable in his own heart and odious to his neighbors.

This route will serve to certify that no other sources of the Nile can come from the south without being seen by me. No one will cut me out after this exploration is accomplished; and may the good Lord of all help me to show myself one of His stout-hearted servants, an honour to my children, and, perhaps, to my country and race.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

With us, when you speak of 'the river,' though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.

[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.

Africa is God's country, and He can have it.

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

I always thought of this as God's country.

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.