To lie about a far country is easy.
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born.
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
How can it be “mutually beneficial” to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country’s defeat is a defeat for all of us.
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action – that the end will sanction any means.
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
Why aren’t more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren’t within everybody’s reach.
There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country’s call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it’s not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.