#zen

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

— Plato

#citizens #conduct #first #hearts #justice

I am a United States citizen and I vote. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#citizen #i #i am #states #united

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#am #citizens #concise #constant #few

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. ↗

— Colin Powell

#citizens #community #country #educate #going

I am proud to be an American Citizen. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#american #american citizen #citizen #i #i am

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#citizen #civil #country #equality #every

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#along #citizen #europeans #freedom #french

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#answers #assure #citizens #event #flood

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#constitution #made #men #representatives #state