It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!
The men – the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, ’she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.
When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer.
Just be glad you don’t live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.
When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.