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Letter "C" » citizens
«Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.»
Author: Edgar A. Suter
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
citizens, coercion, denied, governments, instruments, possess, violence
«Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Citizenship,
Politics,
Voting
| Keywords:
citizens, elected, officials, vote
«Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.»
Author: Harry A. Blackmun
| About:
Homosexuality,
Liberty
| Keywords:
citizens, differently, disapproval, homosexuality, houses, invades, invading, justify
«As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Citizenship,
Democracy
| Keywords:
abiding, citizens, givers, law-abiding, ruled, rulers, rule of law, The Rule of Law
«Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American government, armed, citizens, countries, governments, unlike
«Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.»
«Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history»
«As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
choice, citizens, Citizens for, country, equality, equality before the law, law, liberty, On Liberty, political, political liberty, rule, rule of law, stay, The Law, The Rule of Law, toleration
«An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens»
«All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
citizens, citizens of, equally, free state, state
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