My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. 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!
Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
the better angels of our nature
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
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.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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.
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.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
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.
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.
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar
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.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.
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.
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
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