"It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears."
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"An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy."
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"Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens."
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"These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens."
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"We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open."
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"I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital."
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"We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen."
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"The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible."
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"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens."
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"It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living."
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"It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies."
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"The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood."
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"I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens."
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"[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved."
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"I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U."
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"American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review."
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"I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen."
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"It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies."
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"In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen."
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"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."
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