There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one’s fatherland is to wish evil to one’s neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.
All right. I’m corny. But I think there’s just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country’s airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.
I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
It’s not debt per se that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.