Fumbling silence in the White House seeps out over the country like a cold fog over a river bed where no stream runs.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Letter to Harry S  Truman, 28 May, alluding to the Eisenhower administration. Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham  Acheson (1980).

Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. See Decatur 258:8, Ferdinand I 320:1.

-Adams,John Quincy
  Letter to  John  Adams,1  Aug.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.205^6.

What a pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.258^9.

Perhaps the tendency is to treat the films of one's own country like the prophetsöwith less than justice.

-Anderson, Lindsay
  Comment, quoted in Ian Christie Arrows of Desire.

Patria est ubicumque est bene. One's country is wherever one does well.

-Anonymous
Quoted as proverbial by Cicero in Tusculanes Disputationes, 5.108. The saying was attributed to the mythical figure Teucer, ancestor of the Trojans, by the Roman tragedian Pacuvius (220^c.130      ).

Your country needs you!

-Anonymous
  First use of British World War I recruiting slogan.

Britain is a Morris Minor country, but with Rolls Royce diplomacy.

-Anonymous
  Remark made during the Falklands crisis by a UN delegate,  Apr. Quoted in The Sunday Times Insight Team The Falklands War (1982).

L'art, de plus en plus, aura une patrie. Art, more and more, will have a country.

-Kostrowitzki
  'L'Esprit nouveau et les po e' tes', Mercure de France.

Do¤ n de esta¤   la patria, amigo? Ni en el corazo¤  n ni en la saliva. Whereisthe country, my friend? It isnot intheheart or in the saliva.

-Arguedas,Jose¤   Mar|¤  a
El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo ('The Upper and the Lower Fox'), ch.3.

We are all immigrants to this place even if we were born here: the country is too big for anyone to inhabit completely, and in the parts unknown to us we move in fear, exiles and invaders.

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  Writing of Canada and Canadians in The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poems by Margaret  Atwood, afterword.

What do you think about England, this country of ours where nobody is well?

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Orators,'Address for a Prize Day'.

The great offices, whether permanent or parliamentary, which require mind now give social prestige, and almost only those. An Under-Secretary of State with »2,000 a year is a much greater man than the director of a finance company with »5,000, and the country saves the difference.

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.4,'The House of Lords'.

We'd both been to the countryand found it disappointingly empty.

-Barnes,Julian Patrick
Metroland, pt.1, ch.4.

But now theydesirea bettercountry, that is, anheavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews11:16.

Vote, n.The instrument and symbol of a freeman'spower to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

This was my countryand it may be yet, But something flew between me and the sun.

-Blunden, Edmund Charles
  'The Resignation'.

He'll be all right when he's married, as Mama says; and reformed rakes make the best husbands, everybody knows. I only wish he were not so uglyöthat's all I think aboutöbut then there's no choice here in the country.

-Bronte«  , Anne
  Agnes Grey, ch.13.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

-Cather,Willa Sibert
  O Pioneers!, pt.1, ch.5.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused bya constant flow of fraudulent advertising isno trivial thing.There ismorethan one way to conquer a country.

-Chandler, Raymond
  Letter to Carl Barndt,15 Nov.