My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
- John Adams
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
- John Adams
It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.
"I guess, Your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god's arse.
"Which god's arse, though? There are so many choices.
"See, the Muslims have one god.
"The Christians have three gods.
"And we Hindus have 36,000,004 divine arses to choose from.
- Aravind Adiga
Let my country die for me.
- James Joyce
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
- Marian Anderson
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
- John Andre
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
- Julie Andrews
My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
- Walter Annenberg
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
- Thomas Jefferson
Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time, and that of 20 aids could effect. For while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better to trust the justice of my country-men, that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me.
- Thomas Jefferson
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
- Thomas Jefferson
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
- Alexis Arguello
What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.
- Alexis Arguello
I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.
- Jeanbertrand Aristide
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
- David Attenborough
I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
- Bruce Babbitt
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same god as the god of the church and I might not be digging on the message of the president because the windmills of his mind are cracked on a lot of subjects concerning people.
- Lynda Barry
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
- Albert Camus
There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
- Albert Camus
Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.
- David Beckham
I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.
- David Beckham
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
- Desmond Tutu
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
- Ahmed Ben Bella
When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
- Ahmed Ben Bella
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
- Haruki Murakami
I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.
- Sylvester Stallone
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E M Forster
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E M Forster
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
- Abebe Bikila
I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
- Louis Bonaparte
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
- Andrew Jackson
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.
- John Wilkes Booth
I swear...I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.
- Kristen Britain
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
- Preston Brooks
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
- Thomas Edward Brown
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
- John Buford
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
- Sitting Bull
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
- Martin Van Buren
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
- Ken Burns
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitudea feeling which increases with the years.
- Albert Einstein
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
- Lord Byron
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
- Gilbert K Chesterton
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
- Wilhelm Canaris
She meant I was hungover. I had been slaughtered, legless, trolleyed, slashed, shredded, plastered, polluted, pissed. I thought, I do love my country's relationship with alcohol. How would I ever exist in the United States? I suppose I would have grief counselling instead. (77)
- Peter Carey
god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!
- Benjamin Franklin
Where liberty is, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin
You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.
- Ana Castillo
I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.
- Virgil
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
I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.
- Chris Christie
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
- Perry Christie
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
- Charles Churchill
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
- Arthur Rimbaud
Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
- John G D Clark
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
- Camille Claudel
Everyone in my village liked U2," I said. "Everyone in my country, maybe. Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music. Do you know what? The first week I was in the detention center, U2 were number one here too. That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.
- Chris Cleave
I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.
- Pete Coors
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
- Ezra Cornell
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
- Ann Coulter
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
- Davy Crockett
Even if my country remains in war with yours...remember... i am not your enemy.
- A J Cronin
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
- Alan Cumming
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- Virginia Woolf
I was born Stranger
I will die Stranger
Unknown is my name
Unknown is my country.
- Santosh Kalwar
It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
- Larry David
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V Debs
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
- Graham Greene
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
- Gail Devers
It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
- Novak Djokovic
Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.
- Novak Djokovic
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
- Novak Djokovic
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.
- Ursula K Le Guin
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
- Maria Sharapova
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
- Elizabeth I
Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
- Robert Emmet
This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
- Seth Grahame Smith
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
- Vicente Fox
If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
- Christopher Gadsden
What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.
- Christopher Gadsden
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
- Barack Obama
Fear not the phantom of death,
My Countrymen, for his greatness
And mercy will refuse to approach
Your smallness; and dread not the
Dagger, for it will decline to be
Lodged in your shallow hearts.
- Kahlil Gibran
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
- William Lloyd Garrison
Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
- Haile Gebrselassie
You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
- Haile Gebrselassie
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
- Haile Gebrselassie
You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
- Haile Gebrselassie
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
- Haile Gebrselassie
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
- Haile Gebrselassie
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
- Abraham Lincoln
As they say in my country, have a nice day.
- Tom Robbins
I have but one life to live for my country
- Nathan Hale
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- Nathan Hale
I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
- Emmylou Harris
For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.
- Prince Harry
I've served my country.
- Prince Harry
I am a loyal American, and I love my country.
- Steven Hatfill
The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration. From now on I'm thinking only of me.
- Joseph Heller
My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
- Aleksandar Hemon
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
- J K Rowling
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
- Francois Hollande
My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.
- Francois Hollande
I commit myself to serve my country.
- Francois Hollande
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
- Herbert Hoover
If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
- Bob Hope
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
- Harry Houdini
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
- Laurence Housman
For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.
- Pam Houston
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?
- Joseph Howe
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
- Douglas Hurd
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
- Zora Neale Hurston
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
- King Hussein I
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
- Dana Hussein
The world is my country, science is my religion.
- Christiaan Huygens
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
- Lech Walesa
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
- Lech Walesa
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R Murrow
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
- Bruce Jenner
I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.
- Tommy Lee Jones
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
- Chief Joseph
My country is still in chains of bloody and terrorist fundamentalists. The situation in Afghanistan and conditions of its ill-fated women will never change positively, as long as the warlords are not disarmed and BOTH the pro-US and anti-US terrorists are removed from the political scene of Afghanistan
- Malalai Joya
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
- Alberto Juantorena
I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.
- Alberto Juantorena
My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.
- Alberto Juantorena
More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
- Garry Kasparov
I am proud of my work for my country.
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
- Imran Khan
I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.
- Neil Kinnock
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
- Lajos Kossuth
I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
- Lajos Kossuth
Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
- Emir Kusturica
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
- Nadine Labaki
I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
- Wally Lamb
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
- Wally Lamb
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine
Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
- Henry Laurens
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
- Wilfrid Laurier
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
- Robert E Lee
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
- C S Lewis
If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.
- C S Lewis
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.
- Marina Lewycka
I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return
- Amin Maalouf
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
- Bill Maher
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
- Naguib Mahfouz
To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
- Diego Maradona
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.
- John Mccain
Charles Sumner; A Smacking breeze has sprung up, and we shall part this company soon; and then for the Atlantic! Farewell then, my friends, my pursuits, my home, my country! Each bellying wave on its rough crest carries me away. The rocking vessel impedes my pen. And now, as my head begins slightly to reel, my imagination entertains the glorious prospects before me...
- David Mccullough
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
- Thomas Francis Meagher
I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
- Eva Mendes
I will not betray my country.
- Mohammed Morsi
I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.
- Hosni Mubarak
As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me.
- Georgios A Papandreou
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
- Georgios A Papandreou
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- Simone Weil
I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory.
- George William Norris
I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium... - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is... inhuman... the only feelings I have are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.... Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
- Patrick O Brian
Patriotism is a word..that comes to mean either my country right or wrong which is infamous or my country is always right which is imbecile
- Patrick O Brian
But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
- Patrick O Brian
My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile.
- Patrick O Brian
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
- Michelle Obama
I love my country more than anything else.
- Ehud Olmert
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
- Pete Seeger
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
- Pete Seeger
I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.
- Michael J Owen
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
- Lester B Pearson
I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.
- Shimon Peres
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
- Tony Perez
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broked up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;...
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;...
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
- Zebulon Pike
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
- William Pitt
I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.
- Pol Pot
I love my country, not my government.
- Jesse Ventura
If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.
- Agnieszka Radwanska
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
- Jeanette Rankin
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.
- Condoleezza Rice
I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.
- Scott Ritter
In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
- Bryan Robson
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
- Mitt Romney
I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
- Wayne Rooney
I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.
- Julius Rosenberg
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.
- Arundhati Roy
You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
- Geoffrey Rush
I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.
- Richard Scaife
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
- Carl Schurz
If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
- Luke Scott
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
- Anne Seward
I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.
- Alan Shearer
And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.
- Gary Shteyngart
I love my country - my whole country!
- Benjamin Silliman
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
- Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
Gintoki: Listen, I don't care what you guys do around the universe. This is my sword, and anywhere it can reach is my country! Bastards who come in and try to mess with my things...whether it be a general, whether it be space pirates, whether it be a meteorite...I'll destroy them!
- Hideaki Sorachi
- John Adams
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
- John Adams
It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.
"I guess, Your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god's arse.
"Which god's arse, though? There are so many choices.
"See, the Muslims have one god.
"The Christians have three gods.
"And we Hindus have 36,000,004 divine arses to choose from.
- Aravind Adiga
Let my country die for me.
- James Joyce
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
- Marian Anderson
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
- John Andre
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
- Julie Andrews
My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
- Walter Annenberg
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
- Thomas Jefferson
Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time, and that of 20 aids could effect. For while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better to trust the justice of my country-men, that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me.
- Thomas Jefferson
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
- Thomas Jefferson
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
- Alexis Arguello
What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.
- Alexis Arguello
I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.
- Jeanbertrand Aristide
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
- David Attenborough
I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
- Bruce Babbitt
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same god as the god of the church and I might not be digging on the message of the president because the windmills of his mind are cracked on a lot of subjects concerning people.
- Lynda Barry
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
- Albert Camus
There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
- Albert Camus
Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.
- David Beckham
I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.
- David Beckham
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
- Desmond Tutu
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
- Ahmed Ben Bella
When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
- Ahmed Ben Bella
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
- Haruki Murakami
I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.
- Sylvester Stallone
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E M Forster
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E M Forster
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
- Abebe Bikila
I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
- Louis Bonaparte
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
- Andrew Jackson
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.
- John Wilkes Booth
I swear...I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.
- Kristen Britain
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
- Preston Brooks
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
- Thomas Edward Brown
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
- John Buford
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
- Sitting Bull
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
- Martin Van Buren
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
- Ken Burns
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitudea feeling which increases with the years.
- Albert Einstein
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
- Lord Byron
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
- Gilbert K Chesterton
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
- Wilhelm Canaris
She meant I was hungover. I had been slaughtered, legless, trolleyed, slashed, shredded, plastered, polluted, pissed. I thought, I do love my country's relationship with alcohol. How would I ever exist in the United States? I suppose I would have grief counselling instead. (77)
- Peter Carey
god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!
- Benjamin Franklin
Where liberty is, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin
You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.
- Ana Castillo
I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.
- Virgil
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
I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.
- Chris Christie
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
- Perry Christie
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
- Charles Churchill
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
- Arthur Rimbaud
Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
- John G D Clark
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
- Camille Claudel
Everyone in my village liked U2," I said. "Everyone in my country, maybe. Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music. Do you know what? The first week I was in the detention center, U2 were number one here too. That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.
- Chris Cleave
I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.
- Pete Coors
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
- Ezra Cornell
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
- Ann Coulter
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
- Davy Crockett
Even if my country remains in war with yours...remember... i am not your enemy.
- A J Cronin
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
- Alan Cumming
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- Virginia Woolf
I was born Stranger
I will die Stranger
Unknown is my name
Unknown is my country.
- Santosh Kalwar
It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
- Larry David
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V Debs
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
- Graham Greene
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
- Gail Devers
It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
- Novak Djokovic
Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.
- Novak Djokovic
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
- Novak Djokovic
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.
- Ursula K Le Guin
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.
- Maria Sharapova
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
- Elizabeth I
Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
- Robert Emmet
This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
- Seth Grahame Smith
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
- Vicente Fox
If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
- Christopher Gadsden
What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.
- Christopher Gadsden
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
- Barack Obama
Fear not the phantom of death,
My Countrymen, for his greatness
And mercy will refuse to approach
Your smallness; and dread not the
Dagger, for it will decline to be
Lodged in your shallow hearts.
- Kahlil Gibran
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
- William Lloyd Garrison
Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
- Haile Gebrselassie
You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
- Haile Gebrselassie
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
- Haile Gebrselassie
You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
- Haile Gebrselassie
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
- Haile Gebrselassie
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
- Haile Gebrselassie
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
- Abraham Lincoln
As they say in my country, have a nice day.
- Tom Robbins
I have but one life to live for my country
- Nathan Hale
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- Nathan Hale
I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
- Emmylou Harris
For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.
- Prince Harry
I've served my country.
- Prince Harry
I am a loyal American, and I love my country.
- Steven Hatfill
The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration. From now on I'm thinking only of me.
- Joseph Heller
My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
- Aleksandar Hemon
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
- J K Rowling
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
- Francois Hollande
My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.
- Francois Hollande
I commit myself to serve my country.
- Francois Hollande
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
- Herbert Hoover
If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
- Bob Hope
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
- Harry Houdini
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
- Laurence Housman
For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.
- Pam Houston
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?
- Joseph Howe
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
- Douglas Hurd
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
- Zora Neale Hurston
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
- King Hussein I
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
- Dana Hussein
The world is my country, science is my religion.
- Christiaan Huygens
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
- Lech Walesa
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
- Lech Walesa
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R Murrow
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
- Bruce Jenner
I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.
- Tommy Lee Jones
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
- Chief Joseph
My country is still in chains of bloody and terrorist fundamentalists. The situation in Afghanistan and conditions of its ill-fated women will never change positively, as long as the warlords are not disarmed and BOTH the pro-US and anti-US terrorists are removed from the political scene of Afghanistan
- Malalai Joya
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
- Alberto Juantorena
I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.
- Alberto Juantorena
My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.
- Alberto Juantorena
More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
- Garry Kasparov
I am proud of my work for my country.
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
- Imran Khan
I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.
- Neil Kinnock
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
- Lajos Kossuth
I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
- Lajos Kossuth
Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
- Emir Kusturica
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
- Nadine Labaki
I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
- Wally Lamb
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
- Wally Lamb
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine
Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
- Henry Laurens
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
- Wilfrid Laurier
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
- Robert E Lee
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
- C S Lewis
If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.
- C S Lewis
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.
- Marina Lewycka
I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return
- Amin Maalouf
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
- Bill Maher
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
- Naguib Mahfouz
To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
- Diego Maradona
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.
- John Mccain
Charles Sumner; A Smacking breeze has sprung up, and we shall part this company soon; and then for the Atlantic! Farewell then, my friends, my pursuits, my home, my country! Each bellying wave on its rough crest carries me away. The rocking vessel impedes my pen. And now, as my head begins slightly to reel, my imagination entertains the glorious prospects before me...
- David Mccullough
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
- Thomas Francis Meagher
I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
- Eva Mendes
I will not betray my country.
- Mohammed Morsi
I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.
- Hosni Mubarak
As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me.
- Georgios A Papandreou
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
- Georgios A Papandreou
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- Simone Weil
I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory.
- George William Norris
I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium... - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is... inhuman... the only feelings I have are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.... Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
- Patrick O Brian
Patriotism is a word..that comes to mean either my country right or wrong which is infamous or my country is always right which is imbecile
- Patrick O Brian
But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
- Patrick O Brian
My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile.
- Patrick O Brian
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
- Michelle Obama
I love my country more than anything else.
- Ehud Olmert
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
- Pete Seeger
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
- Pete Seeger
I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.
- Michael J Owen
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
- Lester B Pearson
I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.
- Shimon Peres
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
- Tony Perez
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broked up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;...
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;...
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
- Zebulon Pike
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
- William Pitt
I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.
- Pol Pot
I love my country, not my government.
- Jesse Ventura
If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.
- Agnieszka Radwanska
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
- Jeanette Rankin
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.
- Condoleezza Rice
I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.
- Scott Ritter
In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
- Bryan Robson
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
- Mitt Romney
I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
- Wayne Rooney
I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.
- Julius Rosenberg
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.
- Arundhati Roy
You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
- Geoffrey Rush
I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.
- Richard Scaife
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
- Carl Schurz
If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
- Luke Scott
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
- Anne Seward
I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.
- Alan Shearer
And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.
- Gary Shteyngart
I love my country - my whole country!
- Benjamin Silliman
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
- Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
Gintoki: Listen, I don't care what you guys do around the universe. This is my sword, and anywhere it can reach is my country! Bastards who come in and try to mess with my things...whether it be a general, whether it be space pirates, whether it be a meteorite...I'll destroy them!
- Hideaki Sorachi
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