Best Countrymen Quotes
115 Countrymen quotes by 95 unique authors
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
— Abraham Lincoln
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William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when…
— William Carey
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The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.
— Grover Cleveland
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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few…
— David Herbert Donald
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But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have…
— Robert Emmet
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In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not…
— Grover Cleveland
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
— Caleb Cushing
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I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a…
— Ben Stiller
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I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.
— James Wolfe
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A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not…
— Thomas Francis Meagher
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I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most…
— Virchand Gandhi
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Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of…
— James A. Baldwin
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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that…
— F. Sionil José
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"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions…
— Anna Seward
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.
— Mark Antony
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
— William Shakespeare
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I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
— Edmund Burke
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To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
— Unknown Author
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I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it are numerous, and,…
— Olaudah Equiano
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Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
— Alexander Hamilton
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One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of…
— George Washington
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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting…
— George Washington
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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