Quotes with fellow-countrymen

Quotes 61 till 80 of 165.

  • Abraham Lincoln If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Antonin Scalia If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Beeban Kidron In 1982, fellow film student Amanda Richardson and I went to Greenham Common for the day - to see what was going on and to shoot some video. The day turned into a weekend, the weekend into seven months, and the dozens of hours of footage turned into a film - 'Carry Greenham Home.'
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bob Barr In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Washington Irving In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Thurgood Marshall In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
    Thurgood Marshall
    American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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  • Albert Einstein Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Whitcomb Riley It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Annie Dillard It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Calamity Jane It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Breyten Breytenbach It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Billy Rose It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
    Billy Rose
    Canadian curler (1899 - 1966)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Andrew Grove Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Frank A. Clark Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Bob Taft Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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