Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court. (As You Like It)
Country Quotes
For in a warm climate, no man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm […]
Who is here so vile that will not love his country? (Julius Caesar)
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind.
I vow to thee, my country – all earthly things above Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love, The love that asks no questions; the love that stands the test, That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best; The love that never falters, the love that pays the price, The […]
It is ridiculous to imagine, that the friendship of nations, whether civil or barbarous, can be gained and kept but by kind treatment; and surely they who intrude, uncalled, upon the country of a distant people, ought to consider the natives as worthy of common kindness, and content themselves to rob without insulting them. The […]
Ask not what you can do for your country, for they are liable to tell you.
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
A colony is to the mother-country, as a member to the body, deriving its action and its strength from the general principle of vitality; receiving from the body, and communicating to it, all the benefits and evils of health and disease; liable, in dangerous maladies, to sharp applications, of which the body, however, must partake […]
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.
