Citizens Quotes - Page 27

• I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

  Socrates

  World, Goodwill, Nationality

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• As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, And Love, India

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.196, Penguin Books India

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• Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Country, Home, Self

  "You Are an American". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2005.

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• What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Agency, Safety

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Strong, Men, Good Man

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a woman, I think my style defines my leadership in that it's a gentler, more compassionate approach. Rather than tell people what's good for them, I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Thinking, People, Style

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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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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• The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Europe, Steps, Awareness

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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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• I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?

  Irshad Manji

  Responsibility, Challenges, Islam

  "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.

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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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• A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Thinking, Government, Demand

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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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• Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious as life itself. Fight every influence - Socialist, communist, whatever it may be - that would deprive an American citizen of the liberty vouchsafed by the Constitution. Liberty is truth. In truth we find liberty. You teachers, feel it in your hearts; instill it into the hearts of these precious children. May the Church of Jesus Christ ever stand true to the ideals of freedom.

  David O. McKay

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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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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• This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Party, Media

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• The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.

  Larry Craig

  Rights, Government, Self

  Congressional Record, Volume 146, Pt. 7, June 06, 2000.

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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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• Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Government, Cost

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• The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Doe, Add

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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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• The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Giving, Income

  "The More Given, the Less Earned" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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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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