Countrymen Quotes · Page 2

Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.

— Mike Tyson

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Khalil Gibran

“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

I don't think that I can tell any story better than the story of my own country, than the stories of my…

— Mahira Khan

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Grover Cleveland

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Rose Macaulay

“At a certain time in our existential experience, we must just not want better for ourselves, but for our country and the…

— Henry Johnson Jr

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it…

— Loretta Napoleoni

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;…

— William Shakespeare

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

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

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

— George Washington

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

— Thomas Sowell

I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for…

— F. Sionil José

[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them…

— Black Hawk

I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false…

— George Steiner

Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference.…

— Paul Ryan

The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon…

— Henry McNeal Turner

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all…

— William Lloyd Garrison

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Pythagoras

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

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Kathi Appelt

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

— Walter Ulbricht

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

— Edward Gibbon

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

— Anonymous

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

— William Shakespeare

It'd be an absolute honor to walk among my countrymen at Sochi.

— Carey Price

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

— William Shakespeare

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

— Kim Jong-un