Top 500 Country Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country.”

— Umberto Eco

352. “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

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

— George Orwell

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Emil Cioran

356. “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

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

— Alexander Graham Bell

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

— Abraham Lincoln

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

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

— Christopher Marlowe

367. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

369. “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

370. “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

371. “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

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

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Ernesto Che Guevara

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

— George Orwell

376. “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

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

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Nathan Hale

380. “Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.”

— Barack Obama

381. “Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.”

— Walt Whitman

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

— Quentin Tarantino

383. “The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one’s country and its people.”

— Henry Ford

384. “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

385. “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

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

— Dave Barry

387. “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

388. “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

389. “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

390. “What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.”

— Christopher Hitchens

391. “It’s kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.”

— John Wayne

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

— Meister Eckhart

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. “However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.”

— Douglas MacArthur

395. “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

396. “Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries – all living sentient creatures.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Donald Trump

398. “Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.”

— Thomas Merton

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

— Bob Dylan

400. “I may look fake but I’m real where it counts.”

— Dolly Parton