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«To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his 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)
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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)
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countryman, countrymen, lands, Nativity
«A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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countryman
«But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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countryman, looked-for, mounted, my thoughts, woolgathering
«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)
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Boswell, countryman, countrymen, Johnson, Scotland, sir
«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)
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bones, bury, Caesar, countryman, countrymen, interred, lend, oft, Romans
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