Countries are stronger and more prosperous when the voices and opinions of all their citizens can be heard. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make… — David Mamet 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
Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must… — Bradley Byrne Copy Share Image
The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or… — Lyman Trumbull Copy Share Image
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K.,… — Prince Andrew Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is going to remain completely focused on American citizens and people who are here legally, and how we get this… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Where does it say that we must allow anyone who wants to come to America to come in and become a citizen.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student.… — Wayne Allyn Root Copy Share Image
For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public… — Pericles Copy Share Image
I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched"… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government… — James Bovard 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
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
[Subjects of the targeted killings] are supposed to be high-level Al Qaeda operatives that pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image
Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave. — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image