philosopher Quotes

• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

  - Karl Marx

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  - Samuel Adams

• The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

  - Les Brown

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

  - Thomas Jefferson