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Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. -- Mark Antony
And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives. -- Louis MacNeice
Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts. -- Kahlil Gibran
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. -- Lord Byron
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. -- Ronald Reagan
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. -- Lawrence Durrell
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war. -- Kim Jong-un
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace. -- Walter Ulbricht
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. -- Camille Claudel
I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that's commendable. -- Ronda Rousey
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. -- Samuel Richardson
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
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. -- Anna Seward
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. -- Loretta Napoleoni
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. -- T. E. Brown
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. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
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 chance to see something funny, have a distraction. -- Ben Stiller
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. -- Laurence Housman
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. -- Preston Brooks
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms. -- Randy Neugebauer
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 of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. -- David Herbert Donald
In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness. -- Amit Bhatia
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. -- Robert Falcon Scott
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen. -- Loretta Napoleoni
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. -- Douglas Hyde
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last. -- Mercy Otis Warren
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. -- Jose Rizal
When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm from Texas, and to see so many people that are obese and with disorders that are preventable. They haven't been shown or told. I'm really passionate about making sure my fellow countrymen are healthy. It's a shame. -- Mehcad Brooks
Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth. -- Mike Tyson
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future. -- Dean Koontz
Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil. -- Kathi Appelt
You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen. -- Nicolas Cage
We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen]. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. -- Swami Vivekananda
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. -- William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. -- William Shakespeare
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. -- Alexander Hamilton
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. -- Edward Gibbon
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad. -- Rose Macaulay
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. -- Thomas Jefferson
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. -- Abraham Lincoln
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country. -- Douglas MacArthur
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. -- George Eliot
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights. -- John Tyler
Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England. -- Rory Bremner
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. -- Grover Cleveland
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME! -- Imran Khan
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. -- Henry Lee III
My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen. -- Joseph Estrada
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. -- Henry David Thoreau
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. -- Thomas Jefferson
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts. -- Bhagat Puran Singh
We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another. -- Jaime Sin
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen. -- Khalil Gibran
Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes. -- Lynn Viehl
Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride. -- Billy Bragg
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? -- Caleb Cushing
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand. -- Tallulah Bankhead
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them. -- George Berkeley
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. -- Narendra Modi
Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly ? and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe. -- Victor Davis Hanson
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. -- Stanislaw Lem
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. -- Benigno Aquino III
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. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict. -- Frank B. Kellogg
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. -- Jean-Claude Duvalier
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. -- George Washington
From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference. -- Halldor Laxness
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky. -- Haile Gebrselassie
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. -- Virginia Foxx
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. -- Grover Cleveland
The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited. -- Sam Brownback
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. -- T. E. Brown
The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them. -- George Washington
In the eleventh century obese English king William the Conqueror took to bed and consumed nothing but alcohol to shed pounds, a practice many of his countrymen seem to continue to this day. -- David Sax
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. -- Glenn McGrath
In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure. -- John F. Kennedy
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. -- Tony Blair
The "?absorbent mind' welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child! -- Maria Montessori
The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth. -- James Morcan
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. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist. -- George W. Bush

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