"The life of a citizen is the property of his country."
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"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
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"I'm a happy person but an angry citizen."
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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."
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"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."
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"And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower."
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"Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties."
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"In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state."
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"Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose."
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"We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey."
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"The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."
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"The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions."
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"True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers."
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"Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith"
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"All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil."
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"During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not."
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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."
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"That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman."
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"We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways."
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"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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