Citizens Quotes - Page 4

• We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Tragedy, World

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• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  War, Lax, Accepting

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

  Tom Vilsack

  Government, Healthcare, Vulnerable

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• What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Office, Important, Citizenship

  Boston Record, April 14, 1903.

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• It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Fall, Errors, Government

  American Communications Ass'n v. Douds (1950)

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Power, Government

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.121, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Senior, Writing, Years

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• Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Men, Good Citizen

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.53

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

  Aristotle

  Character, Anxiety, Political

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

  William Beveridge

  Weed, Ignorance, Marijuana

  "Full Employment in a Free Society". Book by William Beveridge, Part 7, 1944.

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• It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

  Aristotle

  Motivation, Character, Patriotic

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• Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

  Douglas Coupland

  Senior, Long, Toasters

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• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confidence, Respect, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Office, House, Political

  "Brandeis: A Free Man's Life". Book by Alpheus Thomas Mason, 1946.

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• If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Liberty, Majority

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• The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

  Dennis Miller

  White, House, United States

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• Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

  Jesse Ventura

  Responsibility, Government, Grows

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.22, Villard

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• Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Air, Talking

  Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

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• I am proud to be an American Citizen.

  Robert Purvis

  Proud, Proud To Be An American, American Citizens

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• We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

  Corrine Brown

  Moving, Way, Speed

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• There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

  Matt Drudge

  Editors, Scare, World

  Matt Drudge (2001). “Drudge Manifesto”, N A L Trade

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• You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

  Charles A. Beard

  Life, Father, Struggle

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Equality, People, Doctrine

  Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.

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