Country Quotes and Sayings

We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau

God made the country, and man made the town.
- William Cowper

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
- Charles de Gaulle

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, “What is the best language in which to do business?” the man responded: “My customer’s language.
- Leonard I. Sweet

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour – we’re more like celery as a flavour.
- Mike Myers

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
- Robert Frost

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
- George Washington

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
- Will Rogers

Anybody can be good in the country.
- Oscar Wilde

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.
- George William Russell

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
- Abraham Lincoln

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Winston Churchill

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
- Thomas Jefferson

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
- Robert Frost

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