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Letter "C" » countrymen
«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
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History
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«Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.»
«My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
countryman, countrymen, My Country
«Our country is the world, our countrymen all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
countryman, countrymen, lands, Nativity
«For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: / Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: / Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.»
«One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures»
«BOSWELL: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . . JOHNSON: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, countryman, countrymen, Johnson, Scotland, sir
«I would wish my countrymen to adopt just so much of European politeness as to be ready to make all those little sacrifices of self, which really render Europeans amiable, and relieve society from the disagreeable scenes to which rudeness often subjec»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
amiable, countrymen, European, politeness, relieve, rudeness, scenes
«I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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arbitrary, besides, commons, compelled, countryman, countrymen, freest, houses, House of Lords, lords, princes, something else, sorry, the House of Commons
«Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bones, bury, Caesar, countryman, countrymen, interred, lend, oft, Romans
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