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• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Perfect, Lasts

  "Ollie (1987)". "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal., 1988.

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• My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

  Camille Claudel

  Republic, Towns, Fountain

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• Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

  Caleb Cushing

  Men, Virginia, Madison

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• Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

  Henry Lawson

  Home, Australia, Way

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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• 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

  Sky, Work Out, Firsts

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• 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

  Envy, Faces, Killing

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.93, Faber & Faber

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• H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hands, May

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• One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

  Rose Macaulay

  Travel, Feels, Distaste

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• All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wings, Gone, Originality

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• Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

  George Washington

  Jupiter, Done, Fables

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.57

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• I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

  Clara Barton

  War, Moving, Pleasure Seeking

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• 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

  Sadness, Opportunity, Government

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• Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Travel, Kings, Men

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.22

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• Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Tombstone, Science, Might

  James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”

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• One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Looks, Way

  George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.158

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• I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Proud, Saws

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Past, Evil

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Men, Tongue

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2228, Princeton University Press

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• A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, America, People

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• I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• 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

  Father, Roles, Looks

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.

  John Quincy Adams

  Party, Passion, Sacrifice

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• 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

  War, Loss, Past

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• 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

  Rejects You, Enemy, Facts

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• But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Gathering, Wool, Ass

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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