A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We believe... that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings... that will enable Qatar… — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned Copy Share Image
The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin, and that every warrior, every humanitarian, every citizen is… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So, apparently, if you are a pre-sentient mass of cells, this country will protect you and your rights to the n-th degree.… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
