Top 500 Country Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world – including in my own country.”

— Barack Obama

202. “I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open.”

— Robin Williams

203. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

— Ray Bradbury

205. “The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.”

— Calvin Coolidge

206. “Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.”

— Thomas Sowell

207. “Let my country die for me.”

— James Joyce

208. “Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

209. “Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”

— Samuel Adams

210. “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”

— Thomas Jefferson

211. “This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.”

— Ronald Reagan

212. “In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.”

— Frederick Douglass

213. “Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.”

— Michel de Montaigne

214. “Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it.”

— Barack Obama

215. “We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.”

— Bill Maher

216. “Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.”

— Douglas Adams

217. “Your real “country” is where you’re heading, not where you are.”

— Rumi

218. “Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”

— George Washington

219. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

— Orson Welles

220. “I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.”

— Douglas MacArthur

221. “Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.”

— Margaret Thatcher

222. “I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It’s the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.”

— Elvis Presley

223. “Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity – not simply for ourselves but for others – the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.”

— Henry Ford

224. “Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

225. “One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.”

— Ann Landers

226. “I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.”

— Haruki Murakami

227. “In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

228. “America is an unlikely place – a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it’s now your turn to help keep it this way.”

— Barack Obama

229. “England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”

— George Orwell

230. “People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.”

— Margaret Thatcher

231. “In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.”

— Nhat Hanh

232. “A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: “I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat.””

— Thomas Sowell

233. “All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.”

— Rudyard Kipling

234. “Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”

— Voltaire

235. “Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.”

— John F. Kennedy

236. “Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence...”

— Hillary Clinton

237. “If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.”

— Mark Twain

238. “We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.”

— Helen Keller

239. “Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.”

— George Orwell

240. “I’m encouraging you to know what you’re worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house – nobody is worth more than anybody else.”

— Lady Gaga

241. “There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.”

— Walt Whitman

242. “The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.”

— Michelle Obama

243. “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”

— Bill Bryson

244. “In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

245. “Loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what’s right, and shake up the status quo.”

— Barack Obama

246. “The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

247. “No discrimination, that’s what we’re about as a country.”

— Barack Obama

248. “The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country – far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.”

— Noam Chomsky

249. “Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

250. “I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.”

— Clint Eastwood