Citizens Quotes

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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them. — Ludwig von Mises
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that… — Mitch Daniels
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the… — Mitch Daniels
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens… — Mitch Daniels
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow… — Mitch Daniels
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs — Jim Clyburn
I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves,… — Joseph Crowley
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of… — John Rawls
A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands]… — Charles Hamilton Houston
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. — James Callaghan
We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help… — Thad Cochran
Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this… — David O. McKay
I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to… — David O. McKay
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that. — James R. Clapper
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. — Lois Lowry
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and… — Andrew Jackson
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life -- whatever their background or beliefs,… — Jean Chretien
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and… — Herbert Croly
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in… — P.J. O'Rourke
You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately,… — Homer Hickam
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the… — Tom Daschle
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite… — Grover Cleveland
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more… — Yuan T. Lee
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney

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