Citizens Quotes
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The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.
Ziauddin Sardar -
Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
Mark Steyn
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I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.
Ricardo Rossello -
I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
Gary Johnson -
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
Rand Paul -
[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.
Narendra Modi -
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
Benigno Aquino III
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The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
Maajid Nawaz -
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Martha Gellhorn -
Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.
Joseph Stalin -
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
George Washington -
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.
Aristotle -
I'm not an expert in the area but I do think we need to figure out how to harness the power of the citizens.
Chris Norman Smokie
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
Vladimir Putin -
It's been a case where you're going 24 hours a day for the past seven days, ... We want to ease the citizens of the county that the perpetrator won't strike again.
Larry Williams -
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
Plato -
I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
Evan Bayh -
In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
William Sloane Coffin -
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
Aristotle
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When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.
Linda Chavez -
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
Abraham Lincoln -
Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
Kevin Spacey -
I think as citizens, we need to really move forward and we need to take some of the responsibility for it, whether it is simply being more vigilant or by preparing yourself for action if ever you do find yourself in that situation.
Chris Norman Smokie