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QUOTES including the word: "country"

Thomas Paine:
  • The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

    • Ahmad Javad:
  • I am a voice which belongs to the tormented country

    • Christina Rossetti:
  • “One day in the country Is worth a month in town”

    • Durant Will:
  • It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

    • Henri Rousseau:
  • “When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

    • Upton Sinclair:
  • But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

    • Adam Smith:
  • As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

    • George Orwell:
  • War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

    • Confucius:
  • In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

    • Vonnegut:
  • True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

    • Borges:
  • “I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

    • A. Modigliani:
  • Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

    • Jose Rizal:
  • I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”

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

    • Leon Trotsky:
  • “Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

    • Washington:
  • There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

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