State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
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 bear arms.
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.
We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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