Countrymen Quotes
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.
We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
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 of my countrymen.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.
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 the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
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 among our countrymen more fishermen.
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
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 countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME!
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 his countrymen.
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.
Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.
King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.
I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.
