Top 500 Country Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.”

— Bob Dylan

452. “Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

453. “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

454. “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

455. “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

456. “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

457. “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

458. “It’s such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can’t find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Voltaire

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

— Bill Gates

462. “The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

463. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

465. “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

466. “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

467. “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

468. “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

469. “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

470. “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

471. “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

472. “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

473. “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

474. “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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Johnny Cash

477. “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

478. “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

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

— Emily Brontë

481. “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

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— George Orwell

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

— Marguerite Duras

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

— Christopher Hitchens

486. “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

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Roald Dahl

489. “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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

491. “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

492. “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

493. “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

494. “Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”

— Ernest Hemingway

495. “If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”

— Ronald Reagan

496. “The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Mark Twain

498. “I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.”

— Bill Gates

499. “In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I’ve always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.”

— Audrey Hepburn

500. “We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity’s problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.”

— Dalai Lama XIV