Countrymen Quotes · Page 2

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

— Dean Koontz

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

— Grover Cleveland

Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.

— Swami Vivekananda

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

— Rose Macaulay

“We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

— Kathi Appelt

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

— William Shakespeare

A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

— Pythagoras

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on…

— Thomas Jefferson

I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now,…

— Loretta Napoleoni

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen… But toemigrate…

— John Berger

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in…

— George Washington

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own…

— Louis MacNeice

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see…

— Thomas Sowell

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person.…

— Julia Roberts

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in…

— Henry Lee III

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment…

— Subhas Chandra Bose

I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.…

— Gouverneur Morris

“How can we love our country and not love our countrymen? And loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal…

— David McCullough

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No…

— Henry David Thoreau

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

— Douglas MacArthur

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.

— Sheikh Hasina

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

— Lawrence Durrell

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

— Alexander Hamilton

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

— Thomas Jefferson

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

— George Eliot

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

— Nicolas Cage

“Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

— Khalil Gibran

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.

— Malcolm Jenkins

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another.

— Jaime Sin

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

— Joseph Estrada

My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME!

— Imran Khan