Citizens Quotes
2419 Citizens quotes by 1406 unique authors
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I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a…
— Jennifer Connelly
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The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice…
— Unknown Author
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Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care…
— Paul Krugman
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The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an…
— Jimmy Carter
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
— H. L. Mencken
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Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed…
— Simon Jenkins
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of…
— Jesse Taylor
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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…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards…
— Florence King
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Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
— David Mazzucchelli
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I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but…
— George Boas
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No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to…
— John Douillard
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Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you…
— William Shakespeare
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A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing…
— Maurice Strong
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The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every…
— Noah Webster
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Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one…
— Unknown Author
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The most important job of the entrepreneur begins before there is a business or employees. The job of an entrepreneur is to design a business…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their…
— John F. Kennedy
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