Quotes About Citizens

But whatever you choose to believe about the US, believe this: China has become a totalitarian state, and its citizens don't have a fraction of the freedoms that we have here. And don't be fooled by the propaganda. The US isn't perfect, by any means, but it's still a bastion of liberty that continues to be a positive force in the world.

whatever you choose to believe about the US, believe this: China has become a totalitarian state, and its citizens don't have a fraction of the freedoms that we have here. And don't be fooled by the propaganda. The US isn't perfect, by any means, but it's still a bastion of liberty that continues to be a positive force in the world.

It is by the existence of Slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure for intellectual pursuits, and the means of attaining a liberal education.

As early as 1948, the Kinsey Report had reinforced the bluff-your-way-into-Freud theory of human sexuality, placing everyone on a bisexual continuum. So good citizens learned there might be something queer in everybody – and everybody meant even themselves !

Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

As James Madison explained, the Constitution is "of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written, unless it be stamped with the approbation of those to whom it is addressed Ã¢â'¬Â¦ THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

The problem, of course, lies in companies viewing governments and citizens as equals, while in fact governments are, by and large, using their power to implement policies where passing laws is impossible without also changing the national constitution. By remaining neutral, corporations are acting as conduits of the state. They are today's censors, not unlike the religious institutions and governments that came before them.

And although it may seem that governments and citizens (in the form of NGOs or civil society organizations) are given somewhat equal access, the truth is that no citizen, not even a director of a powerful NGO, can simply pick up the phone and dial Mark Zuckerberg to complain about a policy decision the way that Israeli prime minister Netanyahu has been known to do.62

Whereas corporate leaders once spoke about the power of their platforms to help citizens topple governments, today they meet in secret with authoritarian leaders to create backroom deals that stifle citizen expression.63

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Senatus populus quis Romanus, meaning

John Whitehead, author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, notes the U.S. government has been breaking its promises to the American

Democracy is an ongoing conversation between the governed and their governors; it should come as no surprise that dramatic changes in the modes of conversation cause dramatic changes in democracies themselves.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

All life was here. With respectable citizens mixed beggars – who made their trade obvious – and pickpockets – who did not.

To start a new country, with new values and newly minted socialist citizens, it is necessary to begin at the beginning: with children. Schoolteachers in the eastern regions were immediately dismissed because their job had been to educate children in the values of the Nazi regime. Socialist teachers had to be created.

In Hitler's Third Reich it is estimated that there was one Gestapo agent for every 2000 citizens, and in Stalin's USSR there was one KGB agent for every 5830 people. In the GDR, there was one Stasi officer or informant for every sixty-three people. If part-time informers are included, some estimates have the ratio as high as one informer for every 6.5 citizens. Everywhere