Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge,… — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for… — Randall Terry 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
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues -… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but… — Lucky Luciano Copy Share Image
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry… — Mark Shields 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
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
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