Top 500 Country Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”

— Peter F. Drucker

452. “The duties of an officer are the safety, honor, and welfare of your country first; the honor, welfare, and comfort of the men in your command second; and the officer s own ease, comfort, and safety last.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

453. “A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.”

— Samuel Johnson

454. “Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind.”

— George W. Bush

455. “If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.”

— George Washington

456. “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

457. “So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.”

— Bob Dylan

458. “Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.”

— Barack Obama

459. “One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

460. “The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music ‘except country.’ People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.”

— Chuck Klosterman

461. “In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”

— Voltaire

462. “The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.”

— Edmund Burke

463. “In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.”

— Bill Gates

464. “By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.”

— Bill Gates

465. “Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, – a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

466. “The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.”

— Thomas Jefferson

467. “Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.”

— Ayn Rand

468. “The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

469. “Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.”

— Ernest Hemingway

470. “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

— Douglas MacArthur

471. “It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.”

— Charles Dickens

472. “I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

473. “Those who want to “spread the wealth” almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?”

— Thomas Sowell

474. “The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.”

— Noam Chomsky

475. “In some countries Women’s Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women’s Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.”

— Craig Ferguson

476. “I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

— Emily Brontë

477. “I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.”

— George Lucas

478. “I want to make the United States great again. This country is a hell-hole. We are going down fast and I’m a conservative but I have a big heart. I will take care of people, but a lot of people want me to run, and we’ll see what happens.”

— Donald Trump

479. “I don’t believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it’s a shame that we’ve reached a level in our country where we think that you don’t have the right to put your opinion out there.”

— Ben Carson

480. “America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty – the only one. People went to America to be free.”

— Margaret Thatcher

481. “Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market – contrary to rhetoric.”

— Thomas Sowell

482. “We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

483. “Wherever you go – in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”

— Michael Jackson

484. “It’s immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they’ve accomplished for their working people.”

— Bernie Sanders

485. “We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.”

— Johnny Cash

486. “You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.”

— George Carlin

487. “Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”

— George Orwell

488. “I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.”

— Christopher Hitchens

489. “There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”

— Edmund Burke

490. “Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

— Marguerite Duras

491. “This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”

— Cormac McCarthy

492. “The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

493. “When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.”

— Roald Dahl

494. “Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”

— Thomas Jefferson

495. “Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.”

— Benjamin Franklin

496. “I tell kids, don’t trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It’s the plug-in drug.”

— Pete Seeger

497. “There’s always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you’re born a certain way, you’re born in a certain location, you’re born – country, there’s always luck. And some people disagree that there’s no such thing as luck, well, I’ll take them on anytime you want.”

— Donald Trump

498. “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

499. “Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

— Donald Trump

500. “India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”

— Mark Twain