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Citizens Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
- When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the…
- No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is…
- When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct…
- The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from…
- In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of…
- But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives…
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- The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have been a… — Michele Bachmann
- People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges,… — Michele Bachmann
- If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
- My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive… — Alvin Adams
- As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have… — David Baldacci