If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.
- Robert Mugabe
Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.
- Chris Hani
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.
- Sarojini Naidu
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
- Thurgood Marshall
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
- Robert Baden-Powell
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
- Hermann Goring
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
- Ronald Reagan
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
- Jose Rizal
The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country
- Steven Biko
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking - you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....
- David Duke
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
- Douglas MacArthur
Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One reason. Islamic immigration - it's got to stop.
- Milo Yiannopoulos
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
- Ella Baker
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.
- Simon Bolivar
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S. Patton
When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them
- Michelle Obama
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
- Robert E. Lee
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
- Henri Nouwen
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
- Samuel Adams
When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm.
- John G. Lake
The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good salary.....but for me that is not the all of struggle. What is important is the continuation of the struggle... the real problems of the country are not whether one is in Cabinet ...but what we do for social upliftment of the working masses of our country.
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.
- Jon Stewart
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
- Benito Mussolini
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
- Idi Amin
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
- Theodore Roosevelt
My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.
- Manuel L. Quezon
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
- John Adams
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
- Fulton J. Sheen
The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.
- Oliver Tambo
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
- Kwame Nkrumah
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
- Harry S. Truman
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
- Angela Davis
The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'
- Nizar Qabbani
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
- Alexander Hamilton
Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
- Antonin Scalia
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army
- Joseph Stalin
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
- Dick Gregory
Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
