Top 500 Country Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.”

— Erica Jong

152. “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

— Ernest Hemingway

153. “If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.”

— Bill Gates

154. “Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”

— Maya Angelou

155. “Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister’s eyes, Into your brother’s face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.”

— Maya Angelou

156. “You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.”

— William S. Burroughs

157. “The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we’re here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.”

— Nelson Mandela

158. “Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.”

— Isabel Allende

159. “Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”

— Michelle Obama

160. “If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now. We can and should pray for America as a whole, but remember that when God sets out to change a nation, He begins by changing people. It starts with individuals.”

— Billy Graham

161. “Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.”

— John Ruskin

162. “As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

163. “All of life is a foreign country.”

— Jack Kerouac

164. “A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.”

— C. S. Lewis

165. “It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.”

— Hillary Clinton

166. “The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.”

— D. H. Lawrence

167. “Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.”

— Ronald Reagan

168. “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

169. “My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.”

— Walter Scott

170. “We’re more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.”

— Ronald Reagan

171. “Canada’s the best country in the world.”

— Justin Bieber

172. “Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.”

— Thomas Jefferson

173. “Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.”

— Ron Paul

174. “To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”

— John Steinbeck

175. “I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play in my position. I see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around the country and the world.”

— Michelle Obama

176. “Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.”

— George Carlin

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

— Charles Dickens

178. “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

— Toni Morrison

179. “Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; – and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

180. “Our country doesn’t win anymore. We don’t win on trade. We don’t win on the military. We can’t defeat ISIS. We’re not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We’re not taking care of them.”

— Donald Trump

181. “Today we are a nation at peace with itself, united in our diversity, not only proclaiming but living out the contention that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We take our place amongst the nations of the world, confident and proud in being an African country.”

— Nelson Mandela

182. “My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”

— Victor Hugo

183. “Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.”

— Winston Churchill

184. “We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man’s character changes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

185. “Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”

— Khalil Gibran

186. “It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.”

— Richard Dawkins

187. “Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

188. “When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Will Rogers

190. “Only the desert has a fascination – to ride alone – in the sun in the forever unpossessed country – away from man. That is a great temptation.”

— D. H. Lawrence

191. “The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

192. “Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.”

— Swami Vivekananda

193. “Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.”

— Michel de Montaigne

194. “There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

195. “This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.”

— John F. Kennedy

196. “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.”

— Nelson Mandela

197. “Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.”

— Willie Nelson

198. “Let my country die for me.”

— James Joyce

199. “That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.”

— Ray Bradbury

200. “I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.”

— Lionel Messi