Citizens Quotes - Page 9

• ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Army, Gun, Law

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• A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

  John Hickenlooper

  Cities, Faces, Mayors

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• The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

  Joel Barlow

  Revenge, Gun, Government

  Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.24

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

  Stephen Breyer

  Government, Want, Kind

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• I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

  Socrates

  History, World, Athens

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

  Edwin Edwards

  House, Prisoner, Models

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Watches, Republic

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Principles, Good Enough

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• You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Children, Problem, Born

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• Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Voting, Mind, Duty

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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