Citizens Quotes - Page 9

• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Freedom, Humorous

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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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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Freedom, Independent, Gun

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

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• The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thanksgiving, Meaningful, Gratitude

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• We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

  Blythe Danner

  Children, Future, Responsibility

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• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Climate

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

  Quintus Ennius

  House, Liberty, Lips

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• Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Brother, Community

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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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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• We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Differences, Independence

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.204, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Desire, Liberty, Libertarian

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1970). “Toward a national urban policy”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  Robert Peel

  Giving, Community, Police

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice". Book by Larry Siegel (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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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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• The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Allies, United States, States

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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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