Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Lord Byron

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
Dennis Miller

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Dolly Parton

There's no glory like those who save their country.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan Rivers