...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.
Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.
Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
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