Quotes about Country
Architects are servants, not leaders. They are not to assert their little egos, but to express the soul of their country and the rhythm of their time. They are not to follow the delusions of their personal fancy, but to seek the common denominator, which will bring their work close to the heart of the masses. Architects -ah, my friends, theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is not to command, but to be commanded.
- Ayn Rand
Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.
- Barack Obama
Two hundred and thirty-two years and they wait until the country's falling apart before they turn it over to the brother!
- Barack Obama
We better win this thing or the country is screwed.
- Barack Obama
It went fine for us," I said. "But based on what I just saw, we better win this thing or the country is screwed.
- Barack Obama
Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.
- James Madison
I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
- George Washington
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
- Edmund Burke
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?
- Joseph Addison
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
How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue! 80 Who would not be that youth? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!8 —Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war. 85 —Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.
- Joseph Addison
The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.
- Jesse Lee Peterson