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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
Rita Rudner

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns