Quotes with country

Quotes 521 till 540 of 741.

  • Carol Moseley Braun The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • George S. Patton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Caitlin Rose The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • George W. Bush The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
    Inauguratie 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Will Rogers The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Benigno Aquino III The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country's commitment to mutual defense and security, and promotes regional peace and stability.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Harry S. Truman The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ashley Montagu The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Paul Theroux The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Andrew Jackson The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carl Schurz The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • John Ruskin The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Paine The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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