Country Quotes - Page 2
A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn’t be.
- Alexander Woollcott
Farmers worry only during the growing season, but town people worry all the time.
- Edgar Watson Howe
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
- Henry George
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S. Patton
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V. Debs
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.
- William Hazlitt
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
- Christopher Morley
As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
- Albert Camus
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!
- Stephen Decatur
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Lord Acton
Song, song of the south. Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth. Gone, gone with the wind. There ain’t nobody looking back again.
- Alabama
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
- E. B. White
Americana picture of a people proud and free. Americana I’ll keep holding to the dream. You’re still what living means to me.
- Moe Bandy
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison
My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles DuBois
I had to do something for the country.
- Hanoi Hannah
I love my country my whole country!
- Benjamin Silliman
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
- Kathleen Norris
These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
- Nancy Sinatra
He who loves not his country, can love nothing.
- Lord Byron


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