Quotes About Dying For Your Country

#1. You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his

Douglas MacArthur

#2. I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

Bob Kerrey

#3. You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

Anatole France

#4. War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his. Gen. George S. Patton

Lee Child

#5. They all shared Stan's personal allegiance to the famous old saying: War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other guy die for his.

Lee Child

#6. That's a queer sentiment.' William shrugged. 'Dying for your country is a good bit less useful than living for it.

Hilary Rhodes

#7. You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.

Mal Peet

#8. I can do more good outside of prison ... This country is worth dying for.

Edward Snowden

#9. With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

Lawrence Korb

#10. I'm not some invincible super-soldier
I'm a dying boy who's about to be stuck, helpless, in the hospital while an enemy takes over our country.

Marie Lu

#11. I guess the best part of music is that there's not much unknown. Especially in country, because it's always someone leaving or dying or drinking or fighting or loving the United States or talking about God, and the music's simple mostly.

Brian Allen Carr

#12. Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

#13. On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.

Edward Norton

#14. Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Mick Jagger

#15. America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for ...

Cindy Sheehan

#16. I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Curt Flood

#17. The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

Rick Warren

#18. If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#19. No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country.

George S. Patton Jr.

#20. I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Julia Child

#21. What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country."
Willie "Drafted

Rich Allan

#22. I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

David Wooster

#23. They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway,

#24. I know what every colored woman in this country is doing ... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

Toni Morrison

#25. I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."

Walt Whitman

#26. No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.

George S. Patton Jr.

#27. They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

Luc Montagnier

#28. Country's friggin' dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.

Jess Row

#29. When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil. And I will not demand the exact spot, but let it be within this country Horace and I have spent the years roaming contentedly.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#30. Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

Will Rogers

#31. Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.

Mary Jo Putney

#32. Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

Bernie Sanders

#33. A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.

Simone Weil

#34. It is sweet and right to die for your country ... . an old and dangerous lie. It might be necessary, but it is never sweet and rarely right. It's a tragedy.

Louise Penny

#35. Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Johnny Cash

#36. We need a country literally full of cat guys and cat girls, bikers, politicians, clergy, and everyone in between, in order to keep millions from dying without homes.

Jackson Galaxy

#37. I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

Muhammad Yunus

#38. My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country
instead of dying for it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#39. Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Joe Baca

#40. One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country ... not out of it.

J. C. Watts

#41. If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

Hamilton Fish

#42. Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country.

Rush Limbaugh

#43. Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

Jean Giraudoux

#44. Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case ...

Lisa Belkin

#45. Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

Oliver North

#46. Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.

Agnes Macphail

#47. The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#48. Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

John Stossel

#49. Grandma Mazur reads the obituary columns like they're part of the paper's entertainment section. Other communities have country clubs and fraternal orders. The Burg has funeral parlors. If people stopped dying, the social life of the Burg would come to a grinding halt.

Janet Evanovich

#50. Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

Tyson Fury

#51. A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947

Edna Ferber

#52. Leaving your country is like dying, and when you come back you are like a ghost returning to earth, roaming around with missing gaze in your eyes

NoViolet Bulawayo