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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
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
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
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
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
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
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands? -- Joseph Howe
I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London. -- John Niven
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
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights. -- John Tyler
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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 detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen. -- Joseph Estrada
Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride. -- Billy Bragg
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
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
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment. -- Woody Allen
To my countrymenwho gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to cherish it,who suffer and endure in pain without the perception of their potential. -- Nani Palkhiwala
I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together. -- Henry David Thoreau
Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England. -- Rory Bremner
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. -- Camille Claudel
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
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
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 - 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
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
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future. -- Dean Koontz
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
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. -- Abraham Lincoln
My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME! -- Imran Khan
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. -- Thomas Jefferson
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen. -- Khalil Gibran
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
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

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