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
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die,… — Laurence Housman 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
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively… — Ambrose Bierce 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
The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. — Henry Lee III 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
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
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now,… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image