Top 500 Country Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The measure of a country’s greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

52. “Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”

— Ron Paul

53. “Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

— Lily Tomlin

54. “The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.”

— Warren Buffett

55. “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”

— Barack Obama

56. “It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”

— Samuel Adams

57. “Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

58. “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.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

59. “We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.”

— Bryant McGill

60. “As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”

— Albert Einstein

61. “Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.”

— Thomas Jefferson

62. “A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”

— Albert Einstein

63. “We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything’s possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.”

— Barack Obama

64. “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

65. “Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”

— Bertrand Russell

66. “When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.”

— Thomas Merton

67. “Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”

— Thomas Paine

68. “Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’”

— Ezra Pound

69. “I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

70. “Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.”

— Michelle Obama

71. “Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.”

— Nelson Mandela

72. “I’m just a simple country girl.”

— Dolly Parton

73. “The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America – our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.”

— Ronald Reagan

74. “I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.”

— Emil Cioran

75. “Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.”

— Bruce Springsteen

76. “If you can’t get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?”

— George S. Patton Jr.

77. “When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, ‘You mean besides George Jones?’”

— Johnny Cash

78. “Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

— Abraham Lincoln

79. “Where liberty is, there is my country.”

— Benjamin Franklin

80. “Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.”

— Tariq Ramadan

81. “It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

82. “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. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

— Oscar Wilde

83. “I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

84. “Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld – a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

85. “When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

86. “The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

87. “You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.”

— Anatole France

88. “When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

89. “All right. I’m corny. But I think there’s just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.”

— Walt Disney

90. “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”

— George Bernard Shaw

91. “No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

92. “I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.”

— Margaret Thatcher

93. “For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

94. “Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.”

— Willie Nelson

95. “In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me ‘Holy! Holy!’ Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

96. “We can have no ‘50-50’ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

97. “Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

— George Washington

98. “The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

99. “What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.”

— Thomas Sowell

100. “There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.”

— Theodore Roosevelt