Famous Country Quotes
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
