Citizens Quotes - Page 29

• The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.

  Samuel Gompers

  Country, People, World

  Samuel Gompers, Stuart Bruce Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Marla J. Hughes, Mary C. Jeske (1991). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: A national labor movement takes shape, 1895-98”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Months, Events, World

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• Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  Epictetus

  Children, Leader, Parent

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• Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Home, Dwelling, Community

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• A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.

  William Monahan

  Character, Interesting, Criminals

  Source: collider.com

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• Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Religious, Identity, Registration

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• One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

  Frank Church

  Beer, Thinking, America

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• The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

  Plato

  Doctors, Constitution, Psychological

  Republic

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• There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

  Joan Claybrook

  Democracy, Ordinary, Problem

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• America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.

  Zoe Helene

  Horse, Government, America

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• I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.

  Dan Rather

  Country, War, Swings

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• My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

  John Cusack

  Summer, Dad, Player

  "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August, 2008.

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• [W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

  Murray Rothbard

  Soldier, Enemy, Contentment

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• As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.

  Howie Carr

  Special, Asking, Want

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• I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

  Eva Green

  Blood, Borders, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

  Henry Rollins

  Brother, Democracy, Citizens United

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• If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

  Henry Rollins

  America, People, Perfect

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• We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.

  Basil Moreau

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

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• Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.

  James Bovard

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

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• Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

  Red Buttons

  Senior, Missing, Foundation

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• I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Army, Guarantees That

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• Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Age, Able

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.812, Best Books on

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• A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother.

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Government, Everyday

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• As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

  Jon Stewart

  Comedian, Mammals, Fiber

  "Jon Stewart on the end of the Bush Administration". Interview with Adam Bulger, artvoice.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.

  Robert Reich

  Education, Military, Adventure

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2015.

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