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Letter "C" » citizen
«Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
cherishes, citizen, Country Life, defence, gains, His country, protection
«[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.»
Author: Jan Morris
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
Better To Travel, citizen, deodorant, diet, dieting, diets, fiber, fibers, Good Time, high time, respecting, self-respecting, undertake, undertook
«If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Citizenship,
Country,
Mankind
| Keywords:
accident, citizen, France, My Country
«If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
citizen, Citizen of, courteous, gracious, Strangers
«If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Courtesy,
Grace,
Relationships
| Keywords:
citizen, Continent, courteous, cutting off, cut off, gracious, island, joins, lands, show off, Strangers
«I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
citizen, cut off, honored, Hussein, Iraqi, Iraqis, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, shake, shake the hand
«If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bald, citizen, Citizens for, danger, days, day off, deemed, deeming, deems, each day, earth, enterprising, half, half time, halves, her, industrious, Into the Woods, in regard to, Loafer, loafers, making, off, out of danger, regarded, regard as, shear, sheared, shearing, shears, shorn, speculator, speculators, spends, take time off, the Earth, time off, time of day, walks, walk off, woods
«By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Excellence,
Tolerance,
Youth
| Keywords:
citizen, deserves, Education i, passionately, training, upward
«Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
citizen, free state, Greeks, Romans, soldier, the Greeks, This Was
«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.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
citizen, doubtless, higher law, obligation, observance, observances, of necessity, preservation, saving, self preservation, strict, stricter, strictest
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