I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep… — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I mean, Turkey is my country. You know, it's my flag. That is where we're raised... My family is born there. So… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who think they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“If we live in a world of states, and if out-of-state existence is impossible, then we all must live as national citizens.… — Wael B. Hallaq Copy Share Image
It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Our nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution. Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade… — John Price Copy Share Image
“Independence isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. What country could be more independent than Russia? And in Russia now… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“In all of these countries, a significant portion of the population had abandoned their faith in the ideological constructs of power, just… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If you know anything about the issues in our country, you know we have a lot of deep-rooted anger and anxieties that… — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt.… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
...Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big,… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Mamaw and Papaw taught me that we live in the best and greatest country on earth. This fact gave meaning to my… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“It is to point out that at this late hour, the totems of the empire of slavery—chief among them, its flag—still enjoy… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In peace we play and freedom ring, Now let us enjoy a mantra to sing, Down here we know that today Elated… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
“But there I was, surrendering to a most extraordinary call from the grave, the mass-grave-to-be of Europe, as if somewhere ahead lay… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“I had seen how deep in nearly every West Indian, high and low, were the prejudices of race; how often these prejudices… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“That the hand of God was involved in the birth of the new nation he had no doubt. "It is the will… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
