country quotes
Fumbling silence in the White House seeps out over the country like a cold fog over a river bed where no stream runs.
Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. See Decatur 258:8, Ferdinand I 320:1.
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.
What a pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!
Perhaps the tendency is to treat the films of one's own country like the prophetswith less than justice.
Patria est ubicumque est bene. One's country is wherever one does well.
Your country needs you!
Britain is a Morris Minor country, but with Rolls Royce diplomacy.
L'art, de plus en plus, aura une patrie. Art, more and more, will have a country.
Do n de esta la patria, amigo? Ni en el corazo n ni en la saliva. Whereisthe country, my friend? It isnot intheheart or in the saliva.
We are all immigrants to this place even if we were born here: the country is too big for anyone to inhabit completely, and in the parts unknown to us we move in fear, exiles and invaders.
What do you think about England, this country of ours where nobody is well?
The great offices, whether permanent or parliamentary, which require mind now give social prestige, and almost only those. An Under-Secretary of State with »2,000 a year is a much greater man than the director of a finance company with »5,000, and the country saves the difference.
We'd both been to the countryand found it disappointingly empty.
But now theydesirea bettercountry, that is, anheavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Vote, n.The instrument and symbol of a freeman'spower to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
This was my countryand it may be yet, But something flew between me and the sun.
He'll be all right when he's married, as Mama says; and reformed rakes make the best husbands, everybody knows. I only wish he were not so uglythat's all I think aboutbut then there's no choice here in the country.
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused bya constant flow of fraudulent advertising isno trivial thing.There ismorethan one way to conquer a country.
We travel by plane, oftener than not, and yet the spirit of our country seems to have remained a country of railroads.
'My country right or wrong', is a thing that no patriot would thinkof saying except in a desperate case.It is like saying,'My mother, drunkor sober'. See Decatur 258:8.
They died to save their country and they only saved the world.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.Healthycitizens arethegreatest asset any country can have.
From a very earlyage, I had imbibed the opinion, that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his countryas good as he had found it.
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself while looking out for your country.
If I were a Mexican, I would tell you,'Have you not enough room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and hospitable graves.'
He likes the country, but in truth must own, Most likes it, when he studies it in town.
God made the country, and man made the town.
England, with all thy faults I love thee still My country!
'next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims'and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb they sons acclaim you glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now infected with salmonella.
Sagest in the council was he, kindest in the hall: Sure we never won a battle'twas Owen won them all. Had he lived, had he lived, our dear country had been free; But he's dead, but he's dead, and 'tis slaves we'll ever be.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. SeeAdams 5:92, Chesterton 211:46.
The French will only be united under the threat of danger. How else can one govern a country that produces 246 different types of cheese?
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
I thought about it a lot and I thinkevery country ought to have a President.
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse.But the scale doesn't matter.
England's not a bad country It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
America is a country of young men.
I have but one request to make at my departure from this world, it isthe charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justicetomycharacter.Whenmycountry takesher place among thenations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
In regione caecorum rex est luscus. In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my countryand betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Soldati, io esco da Roma. Chi vuole continuare la guerra contro lo straniero venga con me. Non posso offrigli ne onori ne stipendi; gli offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte. Chi ama la Patria me segua. Soldiers, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, follow me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages, I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted, I shall despair of this country being ever preserved froma state George of inferiority, and consequently falling into a very low class among the European states.
I will not have another war. If there is another and we are threatenedwith being brought intoit,Iwill gotoTrafalgar Square and wave a red flag myself sooner thanallow this country to be brought in.
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist I don't think she'd be missedI'm sure she'd not be missed!
Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.
It really means nothing in this country whatsoeverbut then being a writer here means nothing either.
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
You don't need to be 'straight'to fight and die for your country.You just need to shoot straight.
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries.
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
For there isanupstartcrow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
If there is war, there will be Labourgovernments in every countryand quite right too.
In1914, Europe had arrived at a point at which every country except Germany was afraid of the present, and Germany was afraid of the future.
I only regretthat Ihave but onelifeto losefor mycountry.
From his childhood onward this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers by the score, and will be taught to believe himself as of a superior creation. A line will be drawn between him and the people whom he is to be called upon some day to reign over. In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour round the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic alliancewill follow, and the end of it all will bethattheCountry will be calledupontopay the bill.
You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
He serves his party best who serves his country best.
There isnothing good tobe had inthe country, or ifthere is, they will not let you have it.
He is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country.
But the adventure, the conquest of an unknown country, thestruggle against theimpossible, all have a fascination which draws me with an irresistible force.
One omen is best of allto fight for your country.
This is the best portent, to fight in defence of one's country.
It is no shame for a man to die fighting for his country. Honorius of Autun
They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life, a breast Still tender but within the womb is dry.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. See Owen 632:57.
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
The sunlight falls across the country, lighting up the greenstone years of a boy with his father.
Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? He's all a knave or half a slave Who slights his country thus: But a true man, like you, man, Will fill your glass with us.
No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.
My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
A country so precipitously convoluted that the rivers flowing through it look like the silver trails of inebriated slugs.
And as for you, archers, soldiers, gentlemen, and all otherswhoare besieging Orleans,depart in God'sname to your own country I assure you that wherever I find your people in France I shall fight them, and pursue them, and expel them from here, whether they will or not.
The social progress, order, security and peace of each countryare necessarily connected with the social progress, order, securityand peace of all other countries.
This country needs to be united. And sadly, sadly, he wasn't the man who could do it.
The notion of libertyamuses the people of England, and helps to keep off the taedium vitae.When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has, in fact, no uneasy feeling.
The more contracted that power is, the more easily it is destroyed. A country governed bya despot is an inverted cone.
It is impossible to live in a country which is continually under hatches Rain! Rain! Rain!
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Proven c° al song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
I'm going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the worldand, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night's sleep.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what yourcountry can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
We're heading into nut country today.
All of life is a foreign country.
For it'sTommy this, an' Tommy that, and 'Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot.
We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it'slike, what we'regoing through.We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.
Pick out of every country what's best in it.
[Travel] preservesmy young noblemanfromsurfeiting of hisparents,andweanshimfroma dangerousfondness of his mother. It teacheth him wholesome hardship Whereas the country gentleman that never travelled, can scarce go to London without making his will, at least without wetting his handkerchief.
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is,'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' Theyare saying, in effect,'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'
I had learned that if one cannot call a country to heel like a dog, neither can one dismiss the past with a smile in an easygushof feeling, saying: Icould not help it,Iamalsoa victim.
To be in love with a country or a political regime is a tricky business.You get your heart broken even more surely than by being in love with a person.
I dislike almost all dogs, but Alsatians, I do truly believe, should be prohibited by law in any civilised country The more I see of dogs, the more I admire men.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great The effect of travel ona manwhoseheart isintheright place isthatthemind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resourcesthere isgreater presence of mind The sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God: it proves a tonic to the system, and actually a blessing. No one can trulyappreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Spain is the only country where death is the national spectacle.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Mackellar whiteman likeshimor not.If thewhiteman says he does, he is instantlyand usually quite rightlymistrusted. Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft, dim skiesI know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me!
At first sight, landing by plane had seemed an infinitely more normal and agreeable method of entering the country than what Mr Churchill called 'jumping out of a parachute'.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.Go around the country, go to the industrial towns, go to the farms, and you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetimenor indeed ever in the history of this country.
With that stick of matches, with our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
Talk of our enlightened days and our emancipated countrypure nonsense! We are firmly held with the self-fashioned chains of slavery.Yes, now I see that they are self-fashioned, and must be self-removed.
I want for one moment to make our undiscovered country leap into the eyes of the Old World. It must be mysterious, as though floating. It must take the breath. It must be 'one of those islands'.
The longer I live the more I turn to New Zealand.I thank God I was born in New Zealand. Ayoung country is a real heritage, though ittakes onetimetorecognize it.But New Zealand isinmy very bones.What Iwouldn't giveto have a look at it!
The real index of this country is the smiles of the people, not the economic index.
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. The purpose shall be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.
Rus in urbe. Country in the town.
But mark it well, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day.I have onlycommitted this mistake of believing in you, the Americans.
If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stockcompanies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the employees of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.
When you see how in this happy country the lowest and poorest member of society takes an interest in all public affairs; when you see how high and low, rich and poor, are all willing to declare their feelings and convictions; when you see howa carter, a common sailor, a beggar is still a man, nay, even more, an Englishmanthen, believe me, you find yourself very differently affected fromtheexperienceyoufeelwhenstaring atoursoldiers drilling in Berlin.
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
How soon country people forget.When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runs time's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
An intelligent Russian once remarked to me,'Every country has its own Constitution.Ours is absolutism moderated byassassination.'
I will sing no more songs: the pride of my country I sang Through forty long years of good rhyme, without any avail; And no one cared even as much as the half of a hang For the song or the singer, so here is an end of the tale.
Notforalltheuniversecontainswould I, inthestrugglefor what I conceive to be my country's cause, consent to the effusion of a single drop of human blood, except myown.
The friends of totalitarianism in this country tend to argue that since absolute truth is not attainable, a big lie is no worse than a little lie.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink fromtheservice of his country; but hethat standsit now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
What istheuse offighting for thevoteif we donot havea country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved womento enduretorture inprison for thenational good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.
Why should not the name of an Australian be equal to that of a Britonto that of a citizen of the proudest country under the sun? Make yourselves a united people, appear before the world as one, and the dream of going 'home' will die away.
And it is a good sign that this masquerading knight- errant, this pretended champion of the rights of every other nation except those of the Irish nation, should be obliged to throw off the mask today, and to stand revealed as the man who by his own utterances is prepared to carry fire and sword into your homesteads unless you humbly abase yourselves before him, and before the landlords of the country.
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation. No man has a right to say to his country,'Thus far thou shalt go and no further.'
I am imbued with two deep impressions; the first, that science knows no country; the second, which seems to contradict the first, although it is really a direct consequence of itthat science is the highest personification of the nation. Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Cry, the Beloved Country.
The object of war is not to die for your country. The object of war istomake damnsuretheother sonofabitch dies for his.
Sin duda la cercan|a de la muerte y la fraternidad de las armas producen, en todos los tiempos y en todos los pa|ses, una atmo sfera propicia a lo extraordinario, a todo aquello que sobrepasa la condicio n humana y rompe el c|rculo de soledad que rodea a cada hombre. No doubt the nearness of death and the brotherhood of men-at-wars, at whatever time and in whatever country, always produce an atmosphere favorable to the extraordinary, to all that rises above the human condition and breaks the circle of solitude that surrounds each one of us.
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
During my tenure of power, myearnest wish has beento impress the people of this country with a belief that the legislature was animated bya sincere desire to frame its legislation upon the principles of equity and justice Deprive me of power tomorrow, but you can never deprive me of the consciousness that I have exercised the powers committed to me from no corrupt or interested motives, from no desire to gratifyambition, or to attain any personal object.
This day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by thename of Pennsylvania; anametheking wouldgive it in honor of my father.
I used to seeVietnam as a war rather than a country.
I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreigntroopwaslanded inmycountry,Inever would lay down my armsnevernevernever!
I am sure that the immediate abolition of the slave trade is the first, the principal, the most indispensable act of policy, of dutyand of justice the legislature of this country has to take, if it is indeed their wish to secure those important objects For we continue to this hour a barbarous traffic in slaves, we continue it even yet, in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions as civilisation.
Your country is more precious and more to be revered and is holier and in higher esteem among the gods and among men of understanding than your mother and your father and all your ancestors.
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain'the sublime' In the old sense.Wrong from the start No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.
In this country it is rare for anyone, let alone a publisher, to take writers seriously.
IwasbornaTory, amaTory, and shall dieaTory.Inever yet heard that it was any part of the faith of aTory to take the institutions and liberties, the laws and customs that his country has evolved over the centuries, and mergethem with those of eight other nations into a new-made artificial stateand what is more, to do so without the willing approbation and consent of the nation.
This is the country of defeat.
War is a condition of progress; the whip-cut that prevents a country from going to sleep and forces satisfied mediocrity to shake off its apathy.
It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.
People in this country haven't got the cinema in their bloodthe real creative talent has been drained off into theatre.
Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.
My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a piece of it, just like you.
The United States is the only country ever to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
We have room in this country but for one flag, the Stars and Stripes.We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.We have room for but one language, the English language.
They seem to be a country that disagrees with a lot of other countries.
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.
It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.
The country habit has me by the heart, For he's bewitched for ever who has seen, Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.
J'ai choisi mon peuple noir peinant, mon peuple paysan, toute la race paysanne, par le monde. I chose my black people struggling, my country people, all country people, in the world.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
We took away their countryand their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decayamong them and it was for this and against this they made war.Could anyone expect less?
We know that you, the organized workers of the country, are our friends As for the rest, they do not matter a tinker's curse.
We were now actually in the inner sanctuary of the Nanda Devi Basin, and at each step I experienced that subtlethrill which anyone of imagination must feel when treading hitherto unexplored country My most blissful dream as a child was to be in some such valley, free to wander where I liked, and discover for myself some hitherto unrevealed glory of Nature. Now the reality was no less wonderful than that half-forgotten dream; and of how many childish fancies can that be said, in this age of disillusionment ?
You can't figure him out like a fact, because to Reagan themainfact was avision He came fromtheheartland of the country, where people could be down-to-earth yet feel that the sky is the limitnot ashamed of, or cynical about, the American dream.
We cannot not sayhow muchwealththereisina country till we know how it is shared among its inhabitants.
When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun roseand set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my country?
Hunting the author, painter and musician is a traditional and popular sport. In this country poet-baiting at an early stage assumed the place of bull-baiting.
We will do our best to reward your faith in us, but please give us the opportunity to serve our country, that is all we ask.
My country,'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims'pride, From every mountain-side Let the freedom ring.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
'I call it a criminal thing in any one's great-great- grandfather to rear up a preposterous troop of sons and plant them all out in his own country', Lady Knox said to me with apparent irrelevance.'I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.'
I vow to thee, my countryall earthly things above Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love.
Now hang it! quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coasta man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes.
If this country is settled, it will be one of the finest Colonies under the Crown, suitable for the growth of anyand everything.
There is no instance of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare.
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect the countryand do good service to his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
These Mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to beg Sustenance for their helpless Infants; who, as they grow up either turnThieves for want of Work; or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain; or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved inanynationwhere Christianity wasthereligion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Let us make this country safe to work in. Let us make this a country safe to walk in. Let us make it a country safe to grow up in. Let us make it a country safe to grow old in.
Any womanwho understandsthe problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
If one leads a country such as Britaina strong country that has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and bad, that isalwaysreliable, thenyou must haveatouch of iron about you.
I went toVietnam to take the train: people have done stranger things in that country.
The soul of man is a far country, which cannot be approached or explored. Most of the dead were poor and illiterate.But every single one of them had dreamed dreams, seen visions and had amazing experiences, even the babes in arms (perhaps especially the babes in arms).
The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.
The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.
'For God, for Country and for Yale', the outstanding single anti-climax in the English language.
This is farewell. I shall wait beneath the moss Until the flowers are fragrant In this island country of Japan.
Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note? To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.
It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.
In a country that is economically backward, the proletariat can take power earlier than in countries where capitalism is advanced.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars, Where stands a winge' d sentry All skilful in the wars;
It's a country evenlydivided between conservatives and reactionaries.
Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country it is considered a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others.
Tratersare a unfortunate class of people.If they wasn't they wouldn't be traters. They conspire to bust up a countrythey fail, and they're traters. They bust her, and they become statesmen and heroes.
Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop it being brought in from outside.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Perhaps true knowledge only comes of death by torture in the country of the mind.
He isgoing round the country stirring up apathy.
I donot mind the Liberals, still less do Imind the Country party, calling me a bastard. In some circumstances, I am only doing my job if they do. But I hope that you will not publicly call me a bastard, as some bastards in the Caucus have.
Anybody can be good in the country.
The English country gentlemangalloping aftera fox^the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is a struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world standsmoment by moment on the razor-edge ofdangerand must be fought forwhether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.
She was more than ever proud of the position of the bungalow, so almost in the country.
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
The map of the world shows no country called Technopolis, yet inmany wayswearealready its citizens.
21st Mayagloriousday forbeauty.Iwishyoucould see how lovely our country is at this fine season.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
The easy Eden-dreamtime then in a country of birds and trees made me your shadow-sister, child, dark girl I couldn't play with.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Learn more about country