Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de Gaulle

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

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Voltaire

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Voltaire

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Steve Martin

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
Bob Hope

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh