wisdom Quotes

• Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

  - Ron Paul

• Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are.

  - Rumi

• A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: 'I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat.'

  - Thomas Sowell

• In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

  - Theodore Roosevelt

• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.

  - Franklin D. Roosevelt

• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

  - Gilbert K. Chesterton

• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl’s schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  - Swami Vivekananda

• I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

  - Zora Neale Hurston

• A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

  - Simone de Beauvoir

• In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

  - Voltaire