My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin

If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Thomas Jefferson

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare