Country quotes

Country

20.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

20.3K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside country — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Quote collection

Country quotes (page 198 of 1014)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Country

"What people don't understand about making a film is sometimes your experience on the film shapes who you are. You're gone to another country for five months, maybe more, there's training leading up to it... It's a whole life experience that people don't see because they just see the final product wrapped up in a couple hours. You don't see everything that happens around it. I think it's hard to say one movie or one thing; I think they all shape who you are."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
Country

"To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ... I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"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."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country."

Read quote 3 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has committed to us the important task of proving by example that a government, if organized in all its parts on the Representative principle unadulterated by the infusion of spurious elements, if founded, not in the fears & follies of man, but on his reason, on his sense of right, on the predominance of the social over his dissocial passions, may be so free as to restrain him in no moral right, and so firm as to protect him from every moral wrong."

Read quote 3 likes