The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum

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

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow

The national dish of Scotland is something called haggis, the specific ingredients of which I won't go into other than to say that if you can visualize boiled, inside-out road kill, you're pretty close