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.

People 100.4K quotes Thinking 95.1K quotes Men 68.6K quotes War 17K quotes America 9.1K quotes Believe 31K quotes

Quote collection

Country quotes (page 82 of 1014)

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

Samuel Adams Politician
Country

"And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM."

Mean Country Law
Read quote 8 likes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Country

"The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion."

Men Country Selfish
Read quote 8 likes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Country

"Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe."

Art Country Wise
Read quote 8 likes
Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
Country

"An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions."

Country Christian Leadership
Read quote 8 likes
Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Country

"The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks."

Country Together Sorry
Read quote 8 likes
Rand Paul Politician
Country

"The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments."

Country Government Jim Crow Laws
Read quote 8 likes
Virgil Goode Politician
Country

"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements."

Country Moving Technology
Read quote 8 likes
Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Country

"After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland."

Country Running Land
Read quote 8 likes
Theresa May Politician
Country

"Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes."

Country Technology Track
Read quote 8 likes
Thomas A. Edison Inventor
Country

"It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise."

People Country Government
Read quote 8 likes
Scott Adams Cartoonist
Country

"You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway."

Country Funny Wise
Read quote 8 likes
Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
Country

"To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall."

Art Country Education
Read quote 8 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided."

Men Country Party
Read quote 8 likes
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Country

"And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them."

Country Light Clouds
Read quote 8 likes