Countrymen Quotes

“Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.”

“Now let me ask my countrymen, Have you ever granted a moment's thought to this very vital problem in the building of our nation ? Have you devised any practical remedies to combat this evil ? Will you, my countrymen, go on without making any intelligent effort to lay the axe at the root of this weaknss and misery ? Will you allow the noted chivalry and the noble hardihood of the Indian to sink into oblivion ? Will you make it a thing entirely of the past ? I implore you, I beseech you, I exhort you my brethren in the name of all that is dearest to you to shake off the lethargy, to show to this world that you were sleeping the sleep of lions only, to rise again with redoubled energy and courage to take the work of rebuilding your nation in right earnest.”

“The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.”

“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”

“If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.”

“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”

“our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!”

“A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen”

“I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.”