Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
Our country’s honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.
Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. – March 15, 1783.
I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
The man who says, ‘my country right or wrong’ is like the man who says, ‘my mother drunk or sober’
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
I don’t think there’s any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.