#countrymen

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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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

#few #first #first time #how #i

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatness And mercy will refuse to approach Your smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to be Lodged in your shallow hearts. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#disappointment #my-countrymen #death

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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