#citizen

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#citizens #democracy #end #law-abiding #ruled

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#behind #citizens #commit #crimes #hide

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor. ↗

— Chris Christie

#american citizen #between #bureaucrats #care #citizen

We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#benefits #citizens #ensure #entering #going

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#citizen #consumption #democratic #equality #fraternity

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#citizens #countless #hamas #homicide #hundreds

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

#citizens #civil #civil rights #constitution #does

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#brave #citizens #day #democratic #each

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#freedom #government #participation #politics #responsibility

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#citizens #constitution #construed #keeping #never