Top 500 Country Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Ayn Rand

354. “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

355. “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

356. “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

357. “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

358. “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

359. “Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.”

— Gloria Steinem

360. “The use of “religion” as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Rumi

362. “Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.”

— Christopher Marlowe

363. “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

364. “Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

365. “Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

366. “The cornerstones of this country’s operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn’t have the economic strength – and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.”

— Malcolm X

367. “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

368. “I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!”

— George Orwell

369. “The things that unite us-America’s past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

371. “One doesn’t live in a country, one lives in a language.”

— Emil Cioran

372. “The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”

— Karl Marx

373. “I ask you all so earnestly to open girl’s schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.”

— Swami Vivekananda

374. “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

375. “I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.”

— Bertrand Russell

376. “Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!”

— Lord Byron

377. “I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.”

— Richard Wright

378. “War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”

— George Orwell

379. “If you can find a nice pretty country girl that can cook and carries her bible, now there’s a woman.”

— Phil Robertson

380. “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

381. “We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.”

— Donald Trump

382. “When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.”

— Bill Gates

383. “I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.”

— George Washington

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384. “Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Joseph Heller

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386. “I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.”

— Bill Gates

387. “Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.”

— Michael Jackson

388. “You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It’s the little differences.”

— Quentin Tarantino

389. “How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”

— Christopher Hitchens

390. “No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.”

— Thomas Paine

391. “An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.”

— Abraham Lincoln

392. “Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

393. “Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.”

— Thomas Jefferson

394. “God is at home. We are in the far country.”

— Meister Eckhart

395. “Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

396. “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.”

— Nelson Mandela

397. “The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women.”

— Barack Obama

398. “We can’t stop here, this is bat country!”

— Hunter S. Thompson

399. “America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

400. “May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.”

— Pope John Paul II