Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The report produced by my commission, the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, in 2012 showed the corrosive impact of money… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad.… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
American Muslims are already within the system. We should stop isolating ourselves by thinking we are powerless. The youngest generations of Americans… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human… — Mirra Alfassa Copy Share Image
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Improvement of civic facilities is among our priorities, and for this purpose, education, health, infrastructure and transport sectors are being improved through… — Shehbaz Sharif Copy Share Image
We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority;… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I believe in national service, I believe that every young adult citizen should do two years of national service. Not necessarily to… — Robert Irvine 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
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as… — Anton Cermak Copy Share Image
I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who… — Reginald McKenna Copy Share Image
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