The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge -… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is the manner of (Cadel) Evan's triumph that has particularly endeared him to his countrymen and women... Australians place a premium… — Paul Ramadge Copy Share Image
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm… — Mehcad Brooks Copy Share Image
![“[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.” quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/feb/ta-nehisi-coates-733_ability_grew-up-in-hawaii-that-gave-barack-obama_75931.png)
