Quotes about Country

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States.

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

Jesus never rebuked the ruling spirit over a city or country. He simply traveled from city to city, setting people free as He went. Freedom was rising from the ground up. And unbeknownst to most of the world, Satan was falling like lightning!

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

I do believe that Russia is a major threat to the United States in Ukraine and around the world, and our oath requires us to put our country first, always.