A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country’s river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
A world without open country would be universal jail.
Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
I’ve had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?
It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.
Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
One person alone can’t do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.