We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
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.
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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