Top 500 Country Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

103. “A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.”

— Frederick Douglass

104. “What would this country be without this great land of ours.”

— Ronald Reagan

105. “No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.”

— Emma Watson

106. “A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

107. “A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country’s flag.”

— Margaret Thatcher

108. “There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

109. “A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

110. “The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.”

— Ron Paul

111. “I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.”

— Neil Gaiman

112. “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”

— Samuel Adams

113. “Our country is being run by incompetent people.”

— Donald Trump

114. “A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.”

— Milton Friedman

115. “In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”

— Charles Dickens

116. “What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”

— Will Rogers

117. “The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.”

— Helen Keller

118. “Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

119. “My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.”

— John Wayne

120. “Never judge a country by its politicians.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

121. “There is not a man in the country that can’t make a living for himself and family. But he can’t make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.”

— Will Rogers

122. “I’m not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.”

— Hillary Clinton

123. “Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built.”

— Michelle Obama

124. “The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

125. “And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

— Benjamin Franklin

126. “In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

127. “Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.”

— Abraham Lincoln

128. “The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.”

— William Penn

129. “Who saves his country violates no law.”

— Napoleon

130. “If you know a country’s geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.”

— Napoleon

131. “Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.”

— Napoleon

132. “It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

133. “Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.”

— Swami Vivekananda

134. “No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby – so helpless and so ridiculous.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

135. “So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

136. “In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries – and poor people – are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.”

— Margaret Thatcher

137. “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

138. “The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

139. “Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.”

— Aleister Crowley

140. “May our children and our children’s children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.”

— Abraham Lincoln

141. “What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.”

— James Baldwin

142. “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.”

— Abraham Lincoln

143. “This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

144. “One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.”

— Emil Cioran

145. “The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.”

— Swami Vivekananda

146. “Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.”

— Peter F. Drucker

147. “So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”

— Mark Twain

148. “Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.”

— Nelson Mandela

149. “I don’t mind having a big beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally. I don’t mind having a big beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally.”

— Donald Trump

150. “I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.”

— C. S. Lewis