Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Vladimir Lenin

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Dave Barry

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
Alan Greenspan

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Virginia Woolf

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Thatcher

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
Ron Paul

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
Everett Dirksen

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. Johnson