"The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law."
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"I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found."
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"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying."
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"We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens."
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"I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders."
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"At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own."
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"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."
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"Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic."
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"The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business."
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"I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious."
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"The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty."
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"A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve."
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"Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts."
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"In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law."
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"Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong."
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"We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen."
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"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."
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"As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake."
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"A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God"
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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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