Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
I’m encouraging you to know what you’re worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house – nobody is worth more than anybody else.
I believe in the country America used to be.
Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
I loved my country, and I hated him.
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart – The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign’d – To fetters and damp vault’s dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!
Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!
Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
I can’t but say it is an awkward sight To see one’s native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?