It goes to local authorities and even to members of Parliament so that individual citizens almost become people who want to sit… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome… — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. — James Madison Copy Share Image
We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending… — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor. — John Hospers Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie. — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
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