Best fellows & countrymen Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.”

Country Class Fellows Dear Articles Foe Reducing Discontent Cheaper Doing You Countrymen Demoralized Classes Of Society

Book:Specimens of the table talk

Source: Specimens of the table talk

“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.”

Ifs Hard Facts Wonder Enemy Fellows Embrace Rejects Traitor Countrymen Rejects You

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.”

World May Seems Moving Dies Lost Fellows Absurd Centre Fragments Foreigners Persecuted Countrymen

Book:And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

“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.”

Ifs Mind Persons Harder Fellows Decades Countrymen Martians

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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.”

Knows Believe Wells Stills Soul Names Realizing Crime Willing Judgment Happenings Fellows Committed Tongue Breathe Being True Doubted Countrymen

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.”

Country Reason Left Rights Position Civilization Roots Logic Fellows Criminals Inevitable Islamic Communist Anarchy Fanatics Worldview Treason Countrymen Americanism

Author:Ann Coulter

“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.”

Firsts Wells Known Progress Arms Depends Office Regard Fellows Occasions Presidential Addresses Predictions Well Known Oath Appearing Countrymen Hope For The Future Inaugural Address

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.”

People Knows Way Kind Black Ability White Grew Grew Up Optimism Fellows Majority Instance Barack Black People Hawaii Countrymen Ability To See

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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.”

People Thinking Should Audience Politician Enlightenment Fellows Target Countrymen

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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.”

“Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.”

World Shows Peace Can Do Fellows Countrymen

Author:Walter Ulbricht

“I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.”

“Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.”

Way Trying Said Dream Normal Fellows Setting Teeth Settings Bites Apologizing Wizards Howl Countrymen

Book:Wizard's Castle

Source: Wizard's Castle

“The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.”

Men World Firsts Helping Able Life Is This World Fellows Foundation Bounds Helping Others Circles Ties Contentment Fellow Man Countrymen Solid Foundation Ties Of Love

Book:Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

Source: Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”

War Hands Government Heaven Issues Mines Protect Fellows Preserves Civil War Solemn Oath American Civil War Dissatisfied Countrymen Aggressors Inaugural Address

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.”

Fellows Soil Countrymen

Book:The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

Source: The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”

People Has Beens Character Government Care Common Cases Citizens Expectations Fellows Charity Aids Sentiments Misfortunes Brotherhood Indulgence Countrymen Friendliness

Book:Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.”

War Hands Issues Mines Fellows Civil War American Civil War Dissatisfied Countrymen Aggressors Inaugural Address

Book:Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches

Source: Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches

“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.”

Citizens Fellows Charity Misfortunes Countrymen Friendliness

Book:Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

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