The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of… — Dave Lindorff Copy Share Image
Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has… — Larry Siedentop Copy Share Image
I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his… — Horace Copy Share Image
I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior… — Dwight Henry Copy Share Image
What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
“...pointed out that the corporation enjoys the same rights as a living person under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This concept… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Seven out of 10 Americans, they do not like the direction our country is going. Many of our fellow citizens feel alienated… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital… — Terence C. Kern Copy Share Image
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
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