To this day, one of my proudest achievements is captaining my country. — David Beckham Copy Share Image
I want to be the president of all the people of France, for the patriots facing the threat of nationalism. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
“patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country. — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my… — George William Norris Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
“The first thing to realize is that it is is a country that is still being imagined. Here every patch of earth… — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“I liked the shifting colors of groups on the courtyard, but could not distinguish one student from the next. They were too… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“ Boast of Quietness Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“[Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image