Top 500 Country Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

303. “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

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

— Marcus Aurelius

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Horace

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Lana Del Rey

314. “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

315. “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

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

— George Orwell

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Woody Allen

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Groucho Marx

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. “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

325. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

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

— Douglas MacArthur

331. “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

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

— Nelson Mandela

333. “I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— George Carlin

335. “When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.”

— Woody Allen

336. “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

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

— Malcolm X

338. “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

339. “I am truly a “lone traveler” and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.”

— Albert Einstein

340. “Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.”

— C. S. Lewis

341. “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

342. “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

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

— Ayn Rand

344. “A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

345. “Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?”

— Socrates

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

— Winston Churchill

347. “No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.”

— James Joyce

348. “The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

— Joseph Heller

349. “In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.”

— Rumi

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