Countrymen Quotes - Page 3

• Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

  Kim Jong-un

  War, Past, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another.

  Jaime Sin

  Brother, War, Enemy

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• The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.

  Adam Hochschild

  Country, Example, Paper

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because they hoped for it merely, but those who by sheer force of intellect perceived the means by which it could be accomplished and directed their experiments along the right path. ... The name of Lilienthal is now among the most honoured, but curiously his own countrymen were the last to recognize the value of his work.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Names, Visionaries

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• 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

  Middle East, Philippines, Prime

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  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

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Honor

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.303, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

  Pythagoras

  Stranger, Ifs

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• You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, World, Enthusiasm

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.433

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• The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Safety, Soldier

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• The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction; than I have ever before derived from any political event. Because there is a rational ground for believing that not only the happiness of my own countrymen, but that of mankind in general, will be promoted by it.

  George Washington

  Believe, America, Government

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.457

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• Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.

  Mike Tyson

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• Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

  Billy Bragg

  Pride, Neighbor, Fountain

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• We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Prayer, Land

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

  Edward Gibbon

  Prejudice, Stubborn, Legislators

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.2407, Delphi Classics

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• Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Caring

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• [The Weather Channel] is the most watched cable channel in America. I'll repeat that. It is the most watched cable channel in America. They were worried about the terrorists immobilizing us, and a portion of our countrymen watch weather. 'Kay, you don't get any more immobile than that... unless you're in a goddamn coma. That means you're saying, "I'd go to the window, but it's too far." If you want to know what the weather is you go to a window and stick your hand out and if you want to know what the temperature is you drive by a bank.

  Lewis Black

  Mean, Hands, Weather

  "The End of the Universe". Comedy album, 2002.

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• The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

  John Tyler

  Rights, Perfect, Institutions

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• 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

  Giving Up, Hero, Role Models

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• It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Names, Soul

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• 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

  Eye, Blessing, Saving

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1833). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.449

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• 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

  Mind, Harder, Persons

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• When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to
  struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

  Marcus Garvey

  Country, War, Struggle

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.739, Univ of California Press

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• My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Matter, Language

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• Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Office, Presidential, Progress

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, People, West

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