Public opinion in this country is everything.
- Abraham Lincolns

Where liberty is, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
- Maya Angelou

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
- Andy Warhol

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
- Cyril Connolly

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
- Thomas Jefferson

Christianity with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
- Steven Wright

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
- Frank Zappa

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
- Ronald Reagan

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
- Theodore Roosevelt

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.
- Charles de Montesquieu

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
- Don A. Dillman

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
- John F. Kennedy

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
- Peter Drucker

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!
- Henri Rousseau

We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau

God made the country, and man made the town.
- William Cowper

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
- Charles de Gaulle

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, “What is the best language in which to do business?” the man responded: “My customer’s language.
- Leonard I. Sweet

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour – we’re more like celery as a flavour.
- Mike Myers

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
- Robert Frost