Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don’t have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren’t corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.
There’s so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It’s nice to know where you come from.
No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now.
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.
Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German – German in my soul.
A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.