In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Sun Tzu

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

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

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
Glenn Beck

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Walt Whitman

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Ann Coulter

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles de Gaulle