Citizens Quotes

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It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It… — Rick Scott
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up,… — Laurence Tribe
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. — Bertrand Russell
Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West. — Viktor Yushchenko
We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine. — Viktor Yanukovych
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.… — James Madison
The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have… — Ezra Pound
For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to… — Thomas Jefferson
Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had… — Julia Glass
... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of… — Iris Murdoch
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people... — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be… — Lee Kuan Yew
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its… — Norman Ralph Augustine
...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the united States; how… — Elbridge Gerry
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. — David Foster Wallace
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to… — Plato
We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our… — Barack Obama
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen. — Dwight Henry
I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour. — Henry David Thoreau
We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen. — Kim Campbell
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the… — Aristotle
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect… — Aristotle
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens. — David Petraeus
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the… — Ida B. Wells

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