People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I… — J. K. Rowling 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
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello Copy Share Image
The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in… — David Simon Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I think our duty as American citizens is to be involved and engaged in anything that affects us. As an artist, I… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota or in Louisiana, there are people trying to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I… — Maria von Trapp Copy Share Image
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens.… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector.… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have… — Amanda Smith Copy Share Image
Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy,… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I am not saying that government has nothing to offer. Government has an important role in fostering an environment conducive to business… — Sher Valenzuela Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I am, however, deeply saddened by this [Brexit] vote by the British electorate. But I respect their decision. What is crucial now… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
The scope of our cybersecurity problem is enormous. Our government, our businesses, our trade secrets and our citizens' most sensitive information are… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image