"What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?"
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"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."
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"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately."
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"In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all."
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"Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved."
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"My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law."
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"Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free."
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"A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large."
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"Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens."
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"In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance."
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"I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may."
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"I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families."
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"In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them."
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"Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens."
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"Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?"
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"All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens"
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"A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state."
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"No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions"
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"The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy."
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"Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets."
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