Citizens Quotes - Page 5

• Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Politics, Libertarian

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• We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Principles, Needs

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• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  Wendell Willkie

  Equality, Class, Doe

  An American Program ch. 2 (1944)

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• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, House

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Government, Safety, Fundamentals

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• Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

  Grace Napolitano

  Data, Judging, Leader

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• I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Tired, Class, Treated

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• There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

  Jesse Ventura

  House, Flags, Patriot

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Atheist, Hatred, Scary

  Campaign press conference at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, August 27, 1987.

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• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

  Mark Steyn

  Relationship, Thinking, Government

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• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  Dora Russell

  Mean, Government, Class

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• Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Husband, Father, Wife

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Chapter 3, 1792.

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• Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Elderly, Choices, Care

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• I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Home, Sri Lanka

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• What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.

  Butch Otter

  Idaho, Government, States

  "Idaho to Sue Feds Over Health Care Mandate", www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

  Martin Sheen

  Military, Understanding, Vision

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

  Paul Gillmor

  Senior, Drug, Saving

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• But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

  Jane Byrne

  Party, Government, Political

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• The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Rights, Agreement

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Lying, Destiny, Hands

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

  Albert Camus

  Taxation, Indirect, Notes

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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• Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Rifles, Subjects, Picks

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• These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

  Matt Dillon

  Mean, Responsibility, People

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• You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Cutting, Long

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

  J. William Fulbright

  Country, Patriotic, House

  "Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher". Book by Tristram Coffin, 1966.

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