Countrymen Quotes
115 quotes by 95 authors
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The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
— Lord Byron
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties…
— Charles William Eliot
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in…
— Ronald Reagan
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I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the…
— Thomas Sprat
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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the…
— Bertrand Russell
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The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
— Thomas Jefferson
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My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
— Thomas Jefferson
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.
— Kathi Appelt
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Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
— Samuel Adams
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Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
— Julius Caesar
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My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
— Swami Vivekananda
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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense…
— Ambrose Bierce
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