"Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind."
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"If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran."
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"The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens."
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"The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system"
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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"We develop the kind of citizens we deserve."
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"The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him."
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"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it."
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"....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory."
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"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen."
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"Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does the point involve? The point is not to assist these persons, not to finance their activities. The point is that officials of both countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of the other country."
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"If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce."
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"When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one."
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"No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love"
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"I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people."
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"The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems."
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"If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle."
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"With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future."
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"Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world.""
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"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen."
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