In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people... That's why I said to… — George W. Bush 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
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many… — Randy Neugebauer 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
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us,… — Mercy Otis Warren 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
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
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
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat 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
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
“I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With… — Agnes Smedley 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
I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on… — Adam Hochschild 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
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
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
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
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
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and… — Amit Bhatia Copy Share Image