Country Quotes - Page 10

• May future generations look back on our work
  and say that these were men and women who,
  in a moment of great crisis,
  stood up to their politicians,
  the opinion-makers, and the establishment,
  and saved their country.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Generations, Looks

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• There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

  Guy Clark

  Motivational, Song, Writing

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• Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

  Mark Twain

  Surprise, Whole

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.388, Library of America

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• Why should we believe in God? — We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred.

  Gerald Burton Winrod

  Christian, Hate, Believe

  "Writings".

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Constitution Of The United States, Revolution

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Patriotic, Usa, America

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• Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

  Alan Paton

  Children, Giving, Earth

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Courage, Veterans Day, Memories

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• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  Samuel Adams

  Liberty, Hazards, Libertarian

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stupid, Power, Political

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have fallen sharply, it is worth recalling that economic statistics under the Soviet Union were hardly more reliable than any other official statements. Moreover, a country that produces what no one wants to buy, and whose workers receive wages that they cannot use to buy goods they want, is hardly in the best of economic health.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Russia, Use

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• The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, People, Division

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.80, Modern Library

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Real, Drinking, Beer

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Witty

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• God made the country, and man made the town.

  William Cowper

  God, Men, Cities

  The Task bk. 1 "The Sofa" l. 749 (1785) See Abraham Cowley 2

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• Where liberty is, there is my country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Benjamin Franklin, Mason Locke Weems (1817). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin”, p.184

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• I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

  Aamir Khan

  Voice, Citizens, Want

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• We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

  Edward James Olmos

  Children, Future, Responsibility

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• With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.

  John Fogerty

  War, Patriotic, People

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• What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

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• If we don't become a country that makes things again, we won't have enough jobs for our people.

  Lynn Tilton

  Jobs, People, Enough

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• In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested by their people. They need a scapegoat and for a long time the imperialist served that purpose.

  Bernard Lewis

  Long, People, Purpose

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• We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

  Cindy Sheehan

  United States, Needs, Tendencies

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• The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Real, World Government, Use

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• Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead because of this government. If you are too stupid to turn things around with your vote, there are people out here like me who are willing to turn things around with guns, force and violence. We hope our method does not become necessary.

  Hal Turner

  Sorry, Stupid, Gun

  "'Assassination' Schedule Announced For Congress". www.wnd.com. December 6, 2006.

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