“ Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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“ The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. ”
- Wendell Willkie- Copy
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“ The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge. ”
- Robert Morgenthau- Copy
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“ We feel that citizens have a right to know how much money is being spent to influence their legislators. ”
- Bob Phillips- Copy
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“ The system is rigged. The politicians are picking the voters instead of the voters picking the politicians. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts. ”
- John Fund- Copy
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“ A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat. ”
- Lord Beaverbrook- Copy
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“ Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. ”
- Pauline Kael- Copy
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“ It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. ”
- Robert H. Jackson- Copy
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“ It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. ”
- Susan B. Anthony- Copy
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“ In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I-I feel very much a New Yorker. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
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“ A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation… nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse… ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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