Top 500 Country Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.”

— Barack Obama

352. “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

353. “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

354. “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

355. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Ernesto Che Guevara

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Christopher Marlowe

360. “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

361. “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

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

— George Orwell

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

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

— Joseph Heller

367. “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

368. “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

369. “I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.”

— Barack Obama

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— George Orwell

373. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

— Nathan Hale

374. “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

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

— Emil Cioran

376. “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

377. “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

378. “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

379. “Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...”

— Abraham Lincoln

380. “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

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

— Alexander Graham Bell

382. “Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.”

— Clint Eastwood

383. “A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”

— Benjamin Franklin

384. “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

385. “We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Michael Jackson

387. “I think of rock ‘n’ roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.”

— Bob Dylan

388. “Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”

— Thomas Paine

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

— Quentin Tarantino

390. “I think I’m Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can’t imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I’m very Swedish – I don’t dislike to be alone.”

— Ingmar Bergman

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Pope John Paul II

393. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Phil Robertson

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

— Karl Marx

396. “I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.”

— Wole Soyinka

397. “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

398. “It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.”

— Mother Teresa

399. “In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.”

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Gloria Steinem