You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have read more

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed read more

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.

Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a read more

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one read more

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or read more

Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in read more

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.