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Benjamin Disraeli
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
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Benjamin Franklin
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 a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, This is my Country.
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Bible
And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Daniel Webster
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.
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Edmund Burke
There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Eugene V. Debs
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
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George William Russell
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.
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Giuseppe Mazzini
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
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Henry George
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
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Joseph Addison
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.
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Leonardo da Vinci
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
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Lord Acton
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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Mark Twain
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
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Mark Twain pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.
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