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

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

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

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

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

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

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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