The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens .… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism! — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
When you see illegals and people who aren't citizens and they're on the registration rolls ... We can be babies, but you… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force. — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I was watching Batman, the TV show, on TV Land, on the cable. And Robin said to Batman, Golly, Batman! Why is… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists"… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning… — William Weld Copy Share Image
That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking… — John F. Kennedy 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 security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli government's responsibility. — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
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