"Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness."
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"I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protection which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor."
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"A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them."
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"One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time."
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"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?"
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"the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension."
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"To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start."
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"The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country."
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"It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again."
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"What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes."
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"The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens."
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"The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not."
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"The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air."
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"We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back."
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"Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain."
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"May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.'"
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"The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen."
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"I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times."
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"I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service."
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"But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people."
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