Country Quotes

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

Michael Steele

For mine own part, it was Greek to me

William Shakespeare

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad

George Orwell

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt

Anybody can be good in the country

Oscar Wilde

Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

Dorothy Deming

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths

Mahatma Gandhi

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

As we celebrate Women's History Month this March, it's important to remember the key role women have played in promoting a better understanding and relationships between our country and the rest of the world.

Elaine Chao

What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one.

Thomas Jefferson

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet

Henry David Thoreau