Citizens Quotes - Page 18

• Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Government, Media

  "Surveillance State evils". www.salon.com. April 21, 2012.

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• You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Party, Taken, Two

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• It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.

  George H Morrison

  Lying, Home, Men

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• I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

  Enoch Powell

  Country, Differences, Faces

  "Black Britain's darkest hour" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2008.

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• Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Educational, Octopus, Political

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would prevent or otherwise hobble mutually beneficial trade between any two parties anywhere in the world. No bureaucracy can help us toward that goal; it must come from a growing realization of the merit of freedom itself.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Party, Two, Goal

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• I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Government, Swings, People

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• I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, God, Faith

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• Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable because of their internalized norms of righteous or correct behavior. Religious belief in right and wrong is a vital influence to produce such voluntary compliance by a large number of our citizens.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Religious, Law, Numbers

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• [The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom...men and women who will subscribe to and abide the principles of the Constitution.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Principles, Constitution

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• Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Waste, Crime

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

  Charles Hugh Smith

  States, Payment, Complicity

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• It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Government, Office

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.

  Dennis Prager

  Drug, Physicians, Doe

  "A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors". jewishworldreview.com. November 3, 2009.

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• The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mean, Government, Paper

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• Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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• Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

  James Bovard

  Odds, Government, Numbers

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.133, Macmillan

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• It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Team, Liberty, Faces

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• I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rights, Relation, Diets

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• [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

  Government, Population, Benefits

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.147, Vintage

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• Big government makes small citizens.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Bigs, Big Government

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.90, Regnery Publishing

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• The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Wall, Military

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1212, e-artnow

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• North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Korea, Weapons

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, Iran

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Volunteer

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