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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
— James Joyce
There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.
— Samuel R. Delany
Contrary to some perceptions, revolutionary ideology, even in a tropical country, is not hot. It is cold, man-made.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)
— Alexander McCall Smith
No man is a hero in his own country.
— John Monash
The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
— J. Arthur Thomson
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.
— Andrew Jackson
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
— Davy Crockett
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
— Morley Safer
The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.
— Sean Hannity
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
— Thomas Carlyle
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.
— David Cameron
God made the country, and man made the town.
— William Cowper
The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
— Michel De Montaigne
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
— Emily Bronte
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
— Horace Greeley
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I never saw a country before," says the robed man. "All I saw was the earth under my feet.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
Every country my country, and every man my brother.
— Dan Wheeler
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
— Thomas Jefferson
We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.
— Winfield Scott Hancock
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
— Andrew Jackson
He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
— Edward Everett Hale
If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.
— Thomas Jefferson
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
— Jasper Fforde
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
— Aldous Huxley
There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are
— The Town And Country Magazine. Vol. 11, 1779
Women are strangers in the country of man ...
— Laura Riding
What figure does the man of letters cut in a country where his employer is the proletariat ?
— Walter Benjamin
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
— Emile M. Cioran
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
— Patrick Kavanagh
With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
— Jim Butcher
A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.
— Benjamin Franklin
If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
— Sebastian Coe
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
— Elliott Abrams
Every man has two countries: his own and France.
— Thomas Jefferson
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
— Kurt Vonnegut
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
— Daniel Webster
A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.
— Patti Callahan Henry
Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
— Robert Duvall
I'm a man. A speak-my-mind, fight-for-what-I-believe, bleed-for-my-country, red-meat-eating man. I don't bow down to anyone.
— Kendall Ryan
When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.
— Martina Navratilova
You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country's leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.
— Rachel E. Carter
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.
— Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
A man's country is the world.
— William Lloyd Garrison
A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.
— Michel De Montaigne
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
— Margaret Thatcher
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
— Robert Menzies
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
— George William Curtis
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
— William Shakespeare