George Santayana Country Quotations

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.