Quotes about Country
Live, love, knowing that we're all free Now that we are blessed in our country And realise how lucky we are
- Olivia Newton-John
When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
- Ronald Reagan
Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.
- Herman Melville
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw
I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.
- Mike Huckabee
I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.
- Glenn Beck
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison
We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it's too late.
- Franklin Graham
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
- Abraham Lincoln
If the universities—the supposed citadels of reason, knowledge, scholarship, civilization—can be made to surrender to the rule of brute force, the rest of the country is cooked.
- Ayn Rand
Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.
- Ayn Rand