Top 500 Country Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Let my country die for me.”

— James Joyce

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

— Lionel Messi

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

206. “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

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

— Nikos Kazantzakis

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Robin Williams

211. “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

212. “For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Orson Welles

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

— George Washington

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

— Douglas MacArthur

218. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Rumi

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Margaret Thatcher

223. “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

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. “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

226. “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

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

— Voltaire

228. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

230. “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

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

— Barack Obama

232. “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

233. “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

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

— George Orwell

235. “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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— George Orwell

238. “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

239. “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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

243. “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

244. “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

245. “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

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

— Barack Obama

247. “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

248. “A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.”

— Willie Nelson

249. “I think that the important point is we’ve got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.”

— Barack Obama

250. “It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!”

— Emma Watson