Top 100 Quotes About Your Country
#1. Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor ... ? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#2. Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Rick Warren
#3. If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
Tim Wise
#5. Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.
Sepp Blatter
#6. Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.
Maya Angelou
#7. Tell me, why do you think I do this?" The king sounds curious. "Out of lust? Is that what you think?"
Kill a cardinal? Divide your country? Split the church? 'Seems extravagant,' Chapuys murmurs.
Hilary Mantel
#8. When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
Taslima Nasrin
#9. Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
Wayne Rooney
#10. Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
#11. Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.
Henry Clay
#12. If, by any chance, I get to perform, then it would be a great honor for me. Especially because performing in the Olympics in your country doesn't happen to many skaters.
Kim Yuna
#13. Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually,
David McCullough
#14. Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
Natasha Leggero
#15. All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.
Michael Eric Dyson
#16. Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.
Jacob M. Appel
#17. You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.
William J. Clinton
#18. Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#19. She is you, she is your mother, your father, your country. She is Poland.
Ruta Sepetys
#20. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
#21. In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.
Margaret Thatcher
#22. Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.
Mark Twain
#23. 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
#24. You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
#25. Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#26. Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
Mignon McLaughlin
#27. If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.
Bryan Stevenson
#28. You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
Homer Hickam
#29. Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do bestir yourselves in the defence of your country and your little ones, the asword of justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit you even to your utter destruction.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#30. By God, no matter what Republicans say, the people of this country really do care about each other. We are not a cold people. By God, when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask what you can do for your country," he spoke to this country's heart and conscience.
Garrison Keillor
#31. Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#32. Is there any censorship in your country's media? Then you are definitely living in a fascist country! Censorship is the tool of the coward governments. Criminals are always afraid of the truths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me
Louis Pasteur
#34. This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero.
Suzy Kassem
#35. Yeah, do it for your people
Do it for your pride
How are you ever gonna know if you never even try?
Do it for your country
Do it for your name
The Script
#36. This is how I see humanity. When enemies come to your country, destroy the countryside and your village, kill your countrymen, your comrades and the defenseless wounded, you have to kill them and defend your compatriots; that is true humanity.
Tom Mangold
#37. One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
Lydia Ko
#38. If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
Howard Zinn
#39. Wherever you have friends that's your country, and wherever you receive love, that's your home.
Dalai Lama XIV
#40. In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters.
Mark Twain
#41. As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.
Townsend Harris
#42. War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his. Gen. George S. Patton
Lee Child
#43. In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.
Alan K. Simpson
#44. Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn't say anything bad about it.
James Rozoff
#45. I recalled an economics professor in Fujian who spoke to me of China's inevitable return to the top of the world order. It was just a matter of time.
"I have teapots older than your country," the professor said, sipping his tea. "And they're /very/ sturdy teapots.
Alex Tizon
#46. Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
Cory Booker
#47. 5 decades since JFK's inaugural address it is time now to ask, what your country can do for you & not what you can do for your country. You, my friend have done enough!
Anno Nomius
#48. Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.
Grandmaster Flash
#49. I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.
Paul Weller
#50. Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
Albert Einstein
#51. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
#52. 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
#54. You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.
Nelson Mandela
#55. You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life.
Sebastian Junger
#56. Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
#57. The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
Kal Penn
#58. In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#59. To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine," he said.
Don Kladstrup
#60. But are there not many fascists in your country?"
"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.
Ernest Hemingway,
#61. Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries
all living sentient creatures.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#62. It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
Mignon McLaughlin
#63. You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.
Cristian Mungiu
#64. The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.
Marie Lu
#65. It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.
David Baldacci
#66. By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.
Richard Holbrooke
#67. Um, hi, I'm Carswell Thorne, a convicted criminal in your country. Have we met?
Marissa Meyer
#68. IT'S NOT RACIST
TO BE PROUD
OF YOUR COUNTRY!'
no, but it is fucking
stupid
to think it makes
you a better man.
Andy Carrington
#69. If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.
Nikita Khrushchev
#72. One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.
Peter Senge
#73. You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.
Sarah Benson
#74. Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King
Sunday Adelaja
#75. The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
Virat Kohli
#76. Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Ricardo Montalban
#77. Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#78. You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don't get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there's some good news.
Roger Ailes
#79. In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
Ashton Holmes
#80. If you had the guts to serve your country like the rest of us, you wouldn't have to work so hard to prove you're crazy.
M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
#81. As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
Saul Perlmutter
#83. Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
Ronald Reagan
#84. I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
Christopher Eccleston
#85. If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
Richard V. Allen
#86. To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.
Joe Sakic
#87. No Son [ ... ] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.
Ruta Sepetys
#88. The special and salutary benefit of the study of history is to behold evidence of every sort of behavior set forth as on a splendid memorial; from it you may select for yourself and for your country what to emulate, from it what to avoid, whether basely begun or basely concluded.
Livy
#89. I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.
Michael Moore
#90. You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country
Sunday Adelaja
#91. You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.
Terry Pratchett
#92. It's all trickery. They keep you down and when they piss off some other country, you have to fight for them! It's only your country when they want you to get killed!
Terry Pratchett
#93. Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.
Fred Wilson
#94. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
#95. I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
David Attenborough
#96. I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people.
Steve Daines
#97. I've often heard people say, "Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise." When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#98. That's a queer sentiment.' William shrugged. 'Dying for your country is a good bit less useful than living for it.
Hilary Rhodes
#99. Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.
Manu Ginobili
#100. Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.
Joseph Sobran
