I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the… — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse.… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation. With that assumption I do not hesitate to say that the nation… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds… — Patricia K. Kuhl Copy Share Image
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with… — Solon Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the… — Pamela Sue Martin Copy Share Image
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children -… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
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