It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
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
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
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
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
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley 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
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
[The Weather Channel] is the most watched cable channel in America. I'll repeat that. It is the most watched cable channel in… — Lewis Black 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
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
[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 - 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
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
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 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
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
In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
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
Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
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
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
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
...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
[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