Famous Country Quotes
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
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.
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
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.
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.
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.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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.
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.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
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.
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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.
Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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?'
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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.
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
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.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
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.