The Man Without A Country Quotes

#1. The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

Thomas Starr King

#2. I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane ... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.

Bikram Choudhury

#3. Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

William Hazlitt

#4. A general who advances without thought of personal glory, and retreats without a care for disgrace, who thinks only of protecting the people and benefiting his ruler - such a man is a treasure beyond price to his country.

Sun Tzu

#5. The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

James Buchan

#6. I'm a man without a country. Or I'm a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing.

Ally Carter

#7. Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And ... the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

Daniel Webster

#8. I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country ...

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#9. The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

Millard Fillmore

#10. The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#11. Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

Mary Whitehouse

#12. Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

Simone De Beauvoir

#13. He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

Orison Swett Marden

#14. I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity.

Silvio Berlusconi

#15. The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

Karl Marx

#16. I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

Pliny The Elder

#17. These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

George Jones

#20. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer

#21. when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on high; that is the only difference.

Victor Hugo

#22. Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.
-The Rabbi-

J. Frank Dunkin