writer Quotes
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
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Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.
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Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music ‘except country.’ People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.
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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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It’s such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can’t find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.