Citizens Quotes
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The fence will continue being built and we will go on taking care of the security of Israel's citizens.
Ehud Olmert
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
John Stuart Mill
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I believe that the ultimate object of all activities in a republic should be the development of the manhood of its citizens.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.
Adolf Hitler
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Seamus Heaney
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The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.
Isabelle Kocher
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Big government makes small citizens.
Mark Steyn
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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.
Stuart Chase
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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.
Aristotle
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A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk...
Charles M. Blow
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I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.
Eric Holder
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
Aristotle
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I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
Morley Safer
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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
Aristotle
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You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.
Paul Newman
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I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
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By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
Todd Akin
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The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
Solon