Country Quotes

Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.
- William Lloyd Garrison

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
- Victor Hugo

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!
- Stephen Decatur

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
- Montesquieu

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Lord Acton

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
- Henry George

Every man has two countries, his own and France.
- Henri De Bornier