Quotes on Country

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.