The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs… — William Scranton Copy Share Image
Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles. — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
American Muslims are already within the system. We should stop isolating ourselves by thinking we are powerless. The youngest generations of Americans… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem… — Eliot Ness Copy Share Image
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image