Citizens Quotes

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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden… — A. Whitney Brown
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications… — Noah Webster
I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children,… — Rick Perry
Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but… — Dick Cheney
While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the… — Barack Obama
LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights… — Hillary Clinton
While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In fact,… — David Mixner
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a… — Dennis Kucinich
When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence… — Michael Badnarik
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to… — Simone Weil
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help… — Barack Obama
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near! — George Carlin
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. — John Foster Dulles
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the… — Frederic Bastiat
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest. — William O. Douglas
Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the… — William O. Douglas
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. — Quintus Ennius
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty… — Thomas Jefferson
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all… — Albert Einstein
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of… — Edward Said

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