In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public… — Pericles Copy Share Image
What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction,… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise… — Nick Symmonds Copy Share Image
My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments,… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The good things that have been done, the reforms . . . all of that was not done by government edict. .… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and… — C. Rajagopalachari Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons.… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
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