Citizens Quotes - Page 8

• It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

  Benito Mussolini

  Giving, Unity, Consciousness

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Today, Ordinary

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• Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Home, Cities, Shopping

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• I think I've been a great citizen.

  O. J. Simpson

  Thinking, House

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

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• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Independent, Self

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

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• Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

  Richard Perle

  Confused, Invisibility Cloak, Law

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• A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

  James Inhofe

  Country, Mean, Law

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• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  John Shadegg

  Home, United States, Mexico

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• To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

  Eli Pariser

  Shoes, People, Important

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• Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

  Michael Newdow

  Real, Believe, Government

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• Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Government, People

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• To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

  Paul Gillmor

  Dating, Riding, Debt

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• Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

  Tom Vilsack

  Jobs, Responsibility, Safety

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• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Jobs, Business, Responsibility

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• Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

  John Culberson

  Unions, Borders, Protection

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• I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

  Edwin Edwards

  House, Prisoner, Models

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• Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

  Eliot Ness

  Race, Law, Doubt

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• My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, World, Helping

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

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• The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Gun, America, Government

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

  Elijah Cummings

  Journey, Rights, Hymns

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• But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Texas, Trying, My Time

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• No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

  Roger Mudd

  Character, Names, Giving

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• Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

  Stephen Breyer

  Government, Want, Kind

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• As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Voting, Needs, Express Yourself

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• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

  James Callaghan

  Loss, British Soldiers, Injustice

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