Country

"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."

"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor."

"Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."

"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."

"The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value."

"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it."

"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."

"Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."

"Wherever you have friends that’s your country, and wherever you receive love, that’s your home."

"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country."