Citizens Quotes

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There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going… — Swoosie Kurtz
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to… — Tacitus
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war. — Frederic Raphael
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis… — Noam Chomsky
Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those… — Jonah Goldberg
Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support,… — Tom Lantos
I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become… — Bernhard Schlink
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice… — Bernhard Schlink
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil… — Lyman Trumbull
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of… — Lyman Trumbull
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. — Ray Stannard Baker
This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is… — Robert C. Maynard
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They… — Fisher Ames
A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is… — Neil T Anderson
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have… — James H. Fowler
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial… — John Ralston Saul
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you… — Eli Pariser
Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear… — Chanakya
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea… — Ginni Rometty
I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of… — Paul Craig Roberts
Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens. — Thomas Jefferson
Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be… — Grover Cleveland
Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages,… — Patricia K. Kuhl
A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people… — Michael Sandel

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