The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
[The Bytyqi Brothers were] American citizens and we have been seeking answers to why no one's been held accountable for these atrocities.… — Ben Cardin Copy Share Image
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see… — Yekaterina Samutsevich Copy Share Image
For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights… — John Bonifaz Copy Share Image
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man… — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
... Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession,… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
To say or imply that the foundation exists only on the sufferance of government is to reason from the untenable notion that… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“The systemic rot is so severe in the police that the government should replace it with something that actually works for the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
That information, those 6,000 pages, should be released to the public. It's our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in… — Stompin' Tom Connors Copy Share Image
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image