Citizens Quotes - Page 5

• Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Politics, Libertarian

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• We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Principles, Needs

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• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  Wendell Willkie

  Equality, Class, Doe

  An American Program ch. 2 (1944)

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• We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Government, Safety, Fundamentals

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• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, House

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

  Grace Napolitano

  Data, Judging, Leader

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• Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Elderly, Choices, Care

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• This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

  Martin Sheen

  Military, Understanding, Vision

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.

  Butch Otter

  Idaho, Government, States

  "Idaho to Sue Feds Over Health Care Mandate", www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Husband, Father, Wife

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Chapter 3, 1792.

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• I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Home, Sri Lanka

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• Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

  Paul Gillmor

  Senior, Drug, Saving

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• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

  Mark Steyn

  Relationship, Thinking, Government

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• I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Tired, Class, Treated

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• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  Dora Russell

  Mean, Government, Class

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• But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

  Jane Byrne

  Party, Government, Political

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• There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

  Jesse Ventura

  House, Flags, Patriot

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Atheist, Hatred, Scary

  Campaign press conference at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, August 27, 1987.

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• Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

  Raquel Welch

  House, Proud, Latina

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• We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Sister, Mother, Brother

  “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Land, Drawing, Soldier

  'Dreamers' (1918)

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• Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Rifles, Subjects, Picks

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• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.257, Algora Publishing

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• Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world...
  No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter
  with a clear conscience break his contract with society.
  To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen,
  to do more than your share under it is noble.

  Isaiah Bowman

  Strength, Education, Respect

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