How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.