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There was no politics in Persia because the great king was the master of slaves, not rulers of citizens. The point is beautifully made by Herodotus, the father of history and our own starting point. The exiled Spartan king, Demaratus, had taken refuge at the court of the great king of Persia, Darius I, in 491 BCE. Darius made him the ruler of Pergamum and some other cities. In 480 Darius's son and successor, Xerxes, took him to see the enormous army he had assembled to avenge his father's humiliation by the Athenians in an earlier attempt to conquer Greece. 'Surely,' he said to Demaratus, "the Greeks will not fight against such odds.' He was displeased when Demaratus assured him that they certainly would. 'How is it possible that a thousand men-- or ten thousand, or fifty thousand should stand up to an army as big as mine, especially if they were not under a single master but all perfectly free to do as they pleased?' He could understand that they might feign courage if they were whipped into battle as his Persian troops would be, but it was absurd to suppose that they would fight against such odds. Not a bit of it, said Demaratus. THey would fight and die to preserve their freedom. He added, 'They are free--yes--but they are not wholly free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you. Whatever this master commands they do; and his command never varies: it is never to retreat in battle, however great the odds, but always to remain in formation and to conquer or die.' They were Citizens, not subjects, and free men, not slaves; they were disciplined but self-disciplined. Free men were not whipped into battle.


Alan Ryan


#this-is-sparta #beauty

It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.


Jan Brewer


#ask #citizenship #federal #federal law #had

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.


H. Rap Brown


#citizenship #class #like #little #little bit

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.


J. Edgar Hoover


#citizenship #common #criminals #enforcement #every

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.


James Meredith


#civil #civil rights #concept #could #insulting

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.


Lucy Powell


#citizenship #comes #contract #democratic #most

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.


Charles Rangel


#been #citizenship #country #equal #equal protection

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.


Mark Steyn


#between #care #changes #citizen #citizenship

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.


Andrew Shue


#character #citizenship #confidence #movement #people

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.


Luis Gutierrez


#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had






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