Home / Topics / Country Quotes

Country Quotes

Browse 19754 quotes about Country.

Country Quotes

“I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.”

People Doe Country Pride Grew Achievement Grew Up Socialist No Hope Socialist Countries

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.”

Should Country Done Able Sides Pride Proud Standards Accounts Genuine Our Country Fallen Be Proud Flip

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.”

Country States Today Jobs Nations Growth Forever Pride Months Office Dignity Depth Workers Barack Good Job Salary Recessions Staggering Job Growth Great Recession

Author:Ted Strickland

“It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.”

World Country Whole Kindness Pride Whole World Patriotism Nationalism Patriotic Patriot World Citizen Patriotism And Nationalism Country Love Baha

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

“In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.”

Years Long Soul Country Freedom Land Pride Honor Let Me Perseverance Shade Fades Vistas

Author:John Keats

“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."”

People Country Wise Failing Generations Dangerous Cry Pride Prove Ambition Dignity Institutions Selfish Our Country Secure Welfare Schemes Mock Deceptive True Patriotism False Pride

Author:Carl Schurz

“From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.”

People Country Cities Pride Hiding Retreat

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.”

Way Country Hate Silence Pride I Hate Embrace Wit Vanity Manners Expenses Tides Dirt Courtship Loathe Country Life Vanity And Pride

Author:William Habington

“War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.”

Men War Country Results Existence Issues He Man Pride Standing Tests Army Sooner Or Later Better Man

Book:Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...

Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...

“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.”

“Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.”

Country Freedom Pride Exercise Army

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.”

Thinking Country Bigs Causes Sides Sin Mistake One Thing Pride Corners Commit Big Mistake Sin Of Pride

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.”

Men Way Should Doe Country Matter Wisdom Desire Politics Liberty Opinion Economy Pride Citizens Demand Tests Claims Neighbor Treated Liberalism Minorities Good Citizen

Author:Theodore Roosevelt