"We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime."
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"The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side."
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"The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making."
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"The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages."
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"Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property."
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"This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me"
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"Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state."
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"Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great."
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"ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them."
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"I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life."
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"Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen."
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"As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm."
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"God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!"
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"Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected."
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"It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life."
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"Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism."
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"Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard."
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"We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens."
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"Seven out of 10 Americans, they do not like the direction our country is going. Many of our fellow citizens feel alienated and have lost faith in our core institutions. They don't feel heard and they don't feel represented by those in office."
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"The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death."
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