Citizens Quotes

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The big thing is to make this country... quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they… — Barry Goldwater
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and… — Albert Lutuli
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to… — Joel Barlow
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the… — Joel Barlow
Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service… — Roger Babson
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations… — Vladimir Putin
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to… — James Bovard
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. — Laurence Tribe
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued… — Vladimir Lenin
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death… — David Mamet
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once… — Henry David Thoreau
Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington — Otto Perez Molina
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all… — Albert Einstein
Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon… — George W. Bush
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that… — Henry Ward Beecher
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.… — Bob Hawke
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,… — Benjamin Franklin
Good ball players make good citizens. — Grover Cleveland

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