Country Quotes

A country is that territory that is declared to be a sovereign. However, there are no strict definitions of what a country actually is. In most cases, country generally refers to nation states. Throughout ages, the geographical boundaries and demographics have undergone tectonic changes due to conquests and politics that has altered the physical structure of many nation states. Some have merged with others while some have seceded and become a new country. The country quotes given below will help you to delve into the issue deeper.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal after wards.
Death Blood Patriotism Peace
Theodore Roosevelt

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There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
Nothing
Elizabeth I

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It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.
Decision Time
David Graeber

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An election is supposed to be about our whole country - we can't just concentrate on those areas where people, for the most part, already agree with us.
People
Pete Buttigieg

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Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.
People Change
Colin Kaepernick

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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
People Busy
George Burns

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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Personality Character Residency Responsibility
Theodore Roosevelt

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People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.
People
Johnny Cash

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I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
King George V

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I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.
Robert Redford

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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
Beauty Opinion Time
Aaron Rodgers

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We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.
People Togetherness
Bernie Sanders

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The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
Strength
Kim Jong-un

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
People
Walt Whitman

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Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.
History Faith
Steve King

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

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This isn't a racist, sexist, homophobic hellhole. It's the greatest country on earth. The West got this way with a whole lot of risk-taking, freedom, faith, families, and fatherhood. I'm not just going to sit by while the establishment media attacks those cornerstone values.
Faith Freedom
Gavin McInnes

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How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
Best Greatness Pride
Jacinda Ardern

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Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.
Greatness History
Neil Gorsuch

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The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.
Opportunities Time
Dianne Feinstein

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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
Greatness People
John Wayne

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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
People
Laura Ingraham

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Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.
Racism
Angela Merkel

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I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.
Greatness People Thinking
Nelly

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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
Terrorism
Neil Young

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In every country and region, there are practices and ways of living and culture that have been handed down from ancestors. Naturally, I feel that these should be respected.
Culture
Shinzo Abe

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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Fall
Quentin Crisp

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The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.
Greatness People
Donald Trump, Jr.

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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
Togetherness
Narendra Modi

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And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism.
Observation Opinion Patriotism Terrorism
Osama bin Laden

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Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Democracy
Thurgood Marshall

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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
Government
Vijay Mallya

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Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?
People
George Miller

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I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues are and coming to the point where we can admit that these are issues. Once we admit that, we can deal with it, we can fix them, and we can make this country and these communities a better place.
Colin Kaepernick

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A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.
Justin Trudeau

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For so long, black conservatives have not been able to have a voice; people who have bi-racial children, people in bi-racial relationships, it has been so black and white. I blame Obama. His eight years in office did a lot of damage in terms of race relations in this country.
People
Candace Owens

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Carlos Valderrama was the one I admired most, really. At the time, he was a top player, and I had a lot of admiration for him. I met him once, and he's a great person, someone who provided the country with a lot of joy. He was a very intelligent footballer who could create something out of nothing as well as score goals.
Greatness Time Goals
James Rodriguez

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Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.
Cinema
Salman Khan

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It's when we care for each other - choosing inclusion and love over division and hatred - that this great country is at its greatest.
Greatness Love
Tulsi Gabbard

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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Education Women Health
Sachin Tendulkar

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Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Good Life Honor
Andrew Jackson

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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
America
Gertrude Stein

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I have been with Donald for 18 years, and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism because, like me, he loves this country so much.
Love Patriotism
Melania Trump

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If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
Opportunities People
Boris Johnson

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You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.
Progress
Michelle Obama

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We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
Spirit
Adlai Stevenson II

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Donald is intensely loyal. To family, friends, employees, country.
Family
Melania Trump

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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Power Democracy Government
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.
Best Change Responsibility
Tom Brady

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There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
People Thinking
Alec Baldwin

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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Jackie Robinson

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Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people's happy life.
Life People
Kim Jong-un

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China will continue to play its part as a major and responsible country.
Play
Xi Jinping

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This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.
Jon Voight

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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Patriotism
Bill Maher

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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Bob Woodward

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I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.
Family Money Power
Megyn Kelly

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'Babylone, Babylone' is remarkable. Emmanuel is fascinated by Mexico. He knows the country without having been there... I am amazed by his intellectual capacities. He is extraordinary. I am talking about the man, not about my husband.
Brigitte Macron

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America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.
Opportunities Living
Katharine McPhee

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The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.
Good Truth
Kamala Harris

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When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.
Crime
Beau Biden

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Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the virtues of the young vanguard as the initial spark and bring into full play the mounting vigour of the millions of young people.
Nothing People Positivity
Kim Jong-un

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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
People Politics
Andrew Jackson

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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
Time
James Baldwin

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Liberals believe that they own blacks - still. They believe they're something proprietary about being black in this country, and if you deviate from the way they want you to think, in the way they want you to act, they grow violent.
Candace Owens

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Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Responsibility
Bill Clinton

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When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember a conversation I had with him where he said, you know, this is the richest state in the country if you look at the resources and the land, but the poorest people after the state of Mississippi: the 49th poorest people in the country.
People
Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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It would be a very good thing for all involved - the country, an independent judiciary, and the Left itself - if liberals take a page from David von Drehle and their own judges of the New Deal era, kick their addiction to constitutional litigation, and return to their New Deal roots of trying to win elections rather than lawsuits.
Good
Neil Gorsuch

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Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.
Service Government
Edward Snowden

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Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
Family World
Bill Skarsgard

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As a soldier, I stand ready to serve and protect and defend this country. And as a soldier, I know the cost of war. And as president and commander-in-chief, I will end these regime-change wars.
Wars
Tulsi Gabbard

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This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that just got into a film festival somewhere, that was like the biggest thing you could wish for.
Wish
Alicia Vikander

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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Love America World
James Baldwin

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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Love
Adam Smith

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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
Life
Narendra Modi

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We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.
America Haughtiness Pride Comparisons
Osama bin Laden

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My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.
Love Work
Tom Felton

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There's not a single day when I walk the streets of New York City when someone doesn't come up to me to say: 'Please, please, ask your dad to run for president.' We really need a businessman as leader of our country, not a politician.
Eric Trump

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I'm blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we're on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.
Family Togetherness
Stephen Curry

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My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.
Childhood Fall Children
Lily Allen

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If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
History
Kevin Spacey

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I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.
Love Future
Mark Cuban

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I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.
Order
Kristi Noem

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There are nuts in this country.
John F. Kennedy Jr.

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We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?
Colin Kaepernick

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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers

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The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.
Practice Time
Steve King

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I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
Music
Joaquin Phoenix

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My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.
Strength Kindness
Ivanka Trump

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Delivery Crushes Strength Government
Thomas Jefferson

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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
Ted Cruz

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The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
People Courage Service
Dianne Feinstein

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Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.
Togetherness
Michelle Obama

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It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
Bill Paxton

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In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.
Good
Pranab Mukherjee

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So when I look at spending more dollars, I look at the fact, do I really want my kids and your kids and everybody else's kids in this country to have to pay that bill?
Kristi Noem

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When you end the European Championship the best goal-scorer in your own country, you show the world that you have the shoulders to handle the pressure.
Best World
Kylian Mbappe

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison

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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
Language
Jorge Luis Borges

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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.
People Experience Faith
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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