Country Quotes and Sayings

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

- Leonardo da Vinci

America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
- P. J. O’Rourke

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- Confucius

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

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

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.
- Peter Drucker

We’ve only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
- Jack Welch

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
- Vita Sackville West

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Winston Churchill

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration.  I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
- John Adams

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
- Samuel Johnson

The chief foundations of all states… are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms… where there are good arms there must be good laws.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
- Ralph Nader

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
- Will Rogers

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms – you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
- Sydney Smith

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