Country Quotes

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

~ Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.

~ Juanes

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark.

~ Molly Ivins

I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.

~ Naomi Judd

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

~ Sun Tzu

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

~ George Orwell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

~ Bertrand Russell

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

~ Douglas Macarthur

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

~ William Westmoreland

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

~ John Podhoretz

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

~ Ronald Reagan

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

~ Pat Buchanan

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

~ Silvio Berlusconi

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

~ Henry Kissinger

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

~ Phyllis Schlafly

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.

~ William Kunstler

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

~ Stephen Cohen

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

~ Bob Woodward

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

~ Ronald Reagan

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

~ Pablo Casals

Once Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are not cool on country radio, it's time for a new format.

~ Steven Van Zandt

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

~ Johnny Van Zant

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

~ William Graham Sumner

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

~ John Boyd Orr

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

~ George Packer

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

~ Azim Premji

Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

~ Dan Jenkins

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.

~ Lorrie Fair

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

~ Charles Sturt

I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.

~ Shelley Hennig

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

~ Ronald Reagan

Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

~ Kate Christensen

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

~ Al Mcguire

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

~ Nick Clooney