Quotes

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.
-Benjamin Franklin

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.
-Giuseppe Garibaldi

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

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

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
-Daniel Webster

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
-Giuseppe Mazzini

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

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

There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
-Edmund Burke

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

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

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

My country, right or wrong, " is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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