Quotes about Country

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance. Even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In, short, the flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these and all who work for them.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. The country is better off tranquilly considering its blessings and merits, and earnestly striving to secure more of them, than it would be in nursing hostile bitterness about its deficiencies and faults.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The few exiles who returned to the hospital were received with much less fanfare, because it was unwise to attract attention. This was the tacit slogan throughout the country: don't provoke the military, so as to pretend the recent past was buried and in the process of being forgotten.

it is the most Catholic country in the world—more Catholic than Ireland, and certainly much more so than the Vatican.