Country Quotes

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

~ Millard Fillmore

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

~ Roy Moore

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

~ Charles Babbage

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

~ Steve Berry

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

~ Darius Rucker

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

~ John F. Kennedy

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

~ Nathan Hale

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

~ James Bryce

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

~ Christopher Gadsden

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

~ Alexander Henry

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

~ Zebulon Pike

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

~ Nick Lampson

When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear.

~ Dean Ornish

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

~ Pat Sajak

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

~ Lisa Murkowski

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

~ Rush Limbaugh

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

~ Nancy Pelosi

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

~ Wendy Kopp

When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.

~ Leon Panetta

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

~ Peter T. King

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.

~ Raoul Peck

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

~ Shashi Tharoor

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

~ Robert Frost

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.

~ James K. Polk

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

~ Roger Wicker

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

~ David Satcher

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.

~ Neal Patterson

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

~ Rudyard Kipling

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

~ Christopher Hitchens

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

~ William Hazlitt

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

~ Philip Stanhope

Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.

~ John Paul Dejoria

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

~ Taslima Nasrin

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

~ Thia Megia

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

~ Jim Gaffigan

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

~ Robbie Robertson