Quotes about Country
If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.
— Joseph Heller
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.
— Joseph Heller
The war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boy on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country .
— Joseph Heller
All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
— Joseph Heller
this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.
— Joseph Heller
There are some causes sosacred as to carry with them an irresistible appeal to every virtuous bosom; and he needs but little power of eloquence, who defends the honour of his wife, his mother, or his country. I
— Washington Irving
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
— James Buchanan
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
— Jimmy Carter
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
— James K. Polk
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
— James Madison
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.
— James Madison
We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
— Donald Trump