That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes,… — Plato Copy Share Image
We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation.… — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure.… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
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The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they… — David Gell 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
I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it… — Edward V. Long Copy Share Image
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will… — Lincoln Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
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It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way.… — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Free from the shackles of the E.U. - and an automatic right of entry for their citizens, with or without work -… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
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