Top 500 Country Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “We are at a time in our country’s history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.”

— Barack Obama

302. “The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.”

— Samuel Adams

303. “Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.”

— Marcus Aurelius

304. “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

305. “We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

306. “To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”

— Edmund Burke

307. “A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They’re like strange countries that you have to enter.”

— Bob Dylan

308. “The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow’r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem’d, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.”

— John Milton

309. “Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.”

— Tony Abbott

310. “In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.”

— Horace

311. “There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.”

— Wendell Berry

312. “Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.”

— Abraham Lincoln

313. “Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart – The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign’d – To fetters and damp vault’s dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.”

— Lord Byron

314. “Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.”

— Nelson Mandela

315. “A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

316. “I believe in the country America used to be.”

— Lana Del Rey

317. “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.”

— Dave Barry

318. “The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There’s no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.”

— Rick Warren

319. “If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that’s your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.”

— Bill Gates

320. “Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.”

— George R.R. Martin

321. “I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member.”

— Groucho Marx

322. “Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

323. “They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

— Charles Bukowski

324. “Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

325. “To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.”

— George Orwell

326. “The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.”

— Woody Allen

327. “There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.”

— Ben Carson

328. “Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country.”

— Umberto Eco

329. “Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

— Douglas MacArthur

330. “I feel a very, very strong bind, and really I’m bound to this country, we either have a border or we don’t. People can come into the country, we welcome people to come but they have to come in legally.”

— Donald Trump

331. “If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

— Napoleon

332. “A man’s first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.”

— Mark Twain

333. “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”

— Gertrude Stein

334. “The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.”

— Winston Churchill

335. “This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.”

— George Carlin

336. “There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”

— John F. Kennedy

337. “Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind their own business.”

— William S. Burroughs

338. “Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.”

— Ronald Reagan

339. “In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...”

— Robert M. Pirsig

340. “The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology.”

— Malcolm X

341. “Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise.”

— Michelle Obama

342. “These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

— Winston Churchill

343. “Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.”

— Ayn Rand

344. “I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”

— Angela Carter

345. “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”

— Nelson Mandela

346. “I’m not worried about the country’s long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I’m worried about is that we don’t talk enough about solutions.”

— Steve Jobs

347. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

348. “The world doesn’t just revolve around you. There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.”

— Barack Obama

349. “People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.”

— Howard Zinn

350. “Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.”

— Dale Carnegie