#citizens

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks. ↗

— John Rowland

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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

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The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. ↗

— William Scranton

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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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