Quotes on Country

I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

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

There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.

I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams - to study, invent, and contribute to our culture - they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone. So let's get immigration reform done this year.

A great country cannot wage a little war.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular.

When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .