Country Quotes

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

George Eliot

It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the gulf region of my country. I will be reaching out to others within the music industry to join me in helping to bring relief and hope to these resilient people who have lost everything.

Michael Jackson

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

Idi Amin Dada

Lack of friends means, stranger in one's own country.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Oscar Wilde

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Charles Krauthammer

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer

Will Rogers

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

Denzil Douglas

We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

John G. Diefenbaker

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective.

Paul Anka

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

William Collins

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Tom Wopat

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.

Chuck Berry

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy

Lyndon Baines Johnson
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