Top 500 Country Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.”

— Dr. Seuss

402. “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

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

— Lord Byron

404. “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

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Henry Ford

407. “The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

408. “It’s such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can’t find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”

— Orhan Pamuk

409. “We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Dolly Parton

411. “Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.”

— Justin Bieber

412. “For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great – not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud – but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.”

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

414. “America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.”

— Napoleon

415. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Thomas Merton

418. “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

419. “By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Barack Obama

421. “In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.”

— Bill Gates

422. “I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

423. “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

424. “The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”

— Samuel Adams

425. “Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.”

— Winston Churchill

426. “This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”

— James Joyce

427. “Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.”

— Nelson Mandela

428. “The duties of an officer are the safety, honor, and welfare of your country first; the honor, welfare, and comfort of the men in your command second; and the officer s own ease, comfort, and safety last.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

429. “The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.”

— Michael Jackson

430. “It’s always easier if you have the support of your family, if you’re not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.”

— Novak Djokovic

431. “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy.”

— Deepak Chopra

432. “I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.”

— Bill Bryson

433. “I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public office – just can’t happen. Yet that’s the kind of mindset you need to make this country great again.”

— Donald Trump

434. “Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

435. “I don’t believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it’s a shame that we’ve reached a level in our country where we think that you don’t have the right to put your opinion out there.”

— Ben Carson

436. “To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”

— George Washington

437. “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

438. “In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.”

— Saul Bellow

439. “We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.”

— Ronald Reagan

440. “Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.”

— James Madison

441. “So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.”

— Bob Dylan

442. “How can it be “mutually beneficial” to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

443. “To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.”

— Nelson Mandela

444. “Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?”

— Ray Bradbury

445. “Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— Nelson Mandela

447. “A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

448. “Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.”

— Benjamin Franklin

449. “Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.”

— Barack Obama

450. “It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.”

— Charles Dickens