Top 500 Country Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “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

254. “I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.”

— Dean Karnazes

255. “Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.”

— Aldous Huxley

256. “The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.”

— George W. Bush

257. “A true patriot will defend his country from its government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

258. “Voting is a meaningless exercise. I’m not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don’t. Everything is done to you in this country.”

— George Carlin

259. “The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy.”

— Henry Ford

260. “It’s not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.”

— Warren Buffett

261. “Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president.”

— Thomas Sowell

262. “If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.”

— Ben Carson

263. “Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.”

— Ronald Reagan

264. “Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.”

— Ayn Rand

265. “Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.”

— Lionel Messi

266. “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

— John F. Kennedy

267. “Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.”

— George Carlin

268. “Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat.”

— Will Rogers

269. “It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It’s also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It’s a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.”

— Yann Martel

270. “No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?”

— Bertrand Russell

271. “Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.”

— Abraham Lincoln

272. “We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

273. “I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.”

— Frederick Douglass

274. “The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.”

— Calvin Coolidge

275. “Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: “you don’t have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.””

— Paulo Coelho

276. “England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”

— George Orwell

277. “Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to them what their ancestors did to my country.”

— Craig Ferguson

278. “A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health – mental and physical vigor – go hand in hand.”

— John F. Kennedy

279. “Public opinion in this country is everything.”

— Abraham Lincoln

280. “A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

281. “We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again.”

— Swami Vivekananda

282. “Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.”

— George Orwell

283. “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”

— Margaret Thatcher

284. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

— Aldous Huxley

285. “Every man has two countries: his own and France.”

— Thomas Jefferson

286. “I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.”

— Benjamin Franklin

287. “Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.”

— Abraham Lincoln

288. “For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country’s cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.”

— Abraham Lincoln

289. “Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.”

— Xavi

290. “As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country’s airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.”

— Warren Buffett

291. “War then, is a relation – not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

292. “The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

293. “A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can’t travel any way but sideways and backways.”

— Mark Twain

294. “Our beloved ones have not ‘gone to a far country.’ It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.”

— Helen Keller

295. “Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.”

— Charles Darwin

296. “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

297. “I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.”

— Warren Buffett

298. “I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...”

— Abraham Lincoln

299. “A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

— George Santayana

300. “No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.”

— Abraham Lincoln