"I am a Roman citizen."
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"I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast."
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"To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens."
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"It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers."
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"A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter."
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"I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health."
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"An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old."
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"As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed."
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"He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it."
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"A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power."
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"I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour."
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"From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen."
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"The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike."
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"Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens."
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"Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men."
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"If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it."
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"America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of."
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"I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that."
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"We are citizens of eternity."
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"As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall."
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