Top 500 Country Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.”

— Brian Tracy

452. “Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.”

— Gloria Steinem

453. “A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.”

— Voltaire

454. “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

455. “How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”

— Christopher Hitchens

456. “The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else.”

— Muhammad Ali

457. “Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.”

— Deepak Chopra

458. “Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Samuel Johnson

461. “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

462. “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

463. “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

464. “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

465. “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

466. “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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

468. “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

469. “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

470. “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

471. “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

472. “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

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

— Voltaire

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

— Ronald Reagan

475. “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

476. “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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Emily Brontë

480. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

482. “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

483. “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

484. “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

485. “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

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

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

— Johnny Cash

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— George Orwell

492. “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

493. “There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we’re going to do it again.”

— George W. Bush

494. “Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?”

— Thomas Sowell

495. “Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.”

— Margaret Thatcher

496. “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

497. “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

498. “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

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

— Marguerite Duras

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

— Christopher Hitchens