Countrymen Quotes - Page 4

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

Success, Bravery, Soldier

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All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.

Roger Scruton

Fighting, Destiny, Law

"Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.

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Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

James A. Baldwin

White, Forever, Black

"The Price of the Ticket". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1985.

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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

F. Sionil José

Writing, Ignorance, Apathy

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Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Country, Color, Best Effort

Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."

Thomas Jefferson

Army, Law, Liberty

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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

Acquisition, Attention, Language

Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

William Shakespeare

Loss, May, Hearing

Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.597, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.

Edmund Burke

Men, History, Way

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Halloween, Night, Men

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To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Henry Lee III

Peace, Memories, War

"Eulogy on Washington (December 26, 1799)". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it are numerous, and, did I consider myself an European, I might say my sufferings were great; but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favorite of heaven, and acknowledge the mercies of Providence in every occurrence of my life.

Olaudah Equiano

Believe, Heaven, Suffering

Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah Equiano / Gustavus Vassa. (2013). “The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (Written by Himself).”, p.19, Alejandro's Libros

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Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Alexander Hamilton

Sheep, Revolution, Ass

Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield

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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

Art, Peace, War

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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

George Washington

Running, Strong, Party

George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

Ernest Hemingway

Beautiful, Regret, Awards

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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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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But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?

George Steiner

Morning, Men, Thinking

George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.191, Oxford University Press on Demand

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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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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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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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