If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time

The only civilized country is one in which no man is afraid of the tax collector

Canada's national bird is the grouse

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones

For mine own part, it was Greek to me

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still

It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individua