Citizens Quotes - Page 2

• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Political, Voting

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• I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Dream, Struggle, Usa

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

  Yuan T. Lee

  Ice Cream, Car, Needs

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• We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Patriotic, Jail

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

  Martha Gellhorn

  House, Occupation, Opinion

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Country, Fighting, Countries Of The World

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• A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Small Numbers, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.53

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• Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Food, Political

  Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

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• This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

  Plato

  Funny, Cities

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• Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

  Plato

  Peace, War, Heart

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• Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Freedom, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.219, Best Books on

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• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

  Plutarch

  Inspiring, Food, Loss

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Views, Games, Remember

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• The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Democracy, President, Titles

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• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Father, Women

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.412

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• The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

  Arlen Specter

  Government, Purpose, Fundamentals

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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

  Reality, Notes, Realism

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.17, Macmillan

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• My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

  Sarah Palin

  Journey, Discovery, Transformation

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

  Steve King

  Senior, Guarantees, Benefits

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• I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

  Nat King Cole

  Rights, Feels, Entitled

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• The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

  Satchel Paige

  Change, Baseball, Class

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• I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

  Jane D. Hull

  Summer, Effort, Energy

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• The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminist, Skins, Body

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