The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system -… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,… — Dale Jamieson 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
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without… — Jon Miller Copy Share Image
You know what, citizens? If you don't have a gun - I'm telling you as a Christian chaplain - sell your clothes,… — Gordon Klingenschmitt Copy Share Image
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image