Quotes of Rural - somelinesforyou

“ "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”

- Stephen Decatur

“ Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ Our country is the world — our countrymen are mankind. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ”

- Nathan Hale

“ If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! ”

- William Pitt

“ One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one. ”

- Ann Landers

“ The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me. ”

- Neil Kinnock

“ Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. ”

- Cicero

“ 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

“ Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end,... Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend. ”

- Jean Chretien

“ We will decide who comes to our country. ”

- John Howard

“ Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. ”

- Bible

“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”

- Willa Cather

“ This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. ”

- Mark Twain

“ In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. ”

- Horace

“ The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. ”

- Thomas Dunn English

“ We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage. ”

- Mordecai Richler

“ As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ”

- Bible

“ The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ”

- Lord Acton

“ It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ America is a country of young men. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ 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
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