Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. ' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.
I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.
Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled
Society. . . can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.
The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their mutual security and their protection against foreign enemies. It should impose restrictions on freedom for no other purpose.
Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.
The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce. . . . The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens. . . . And as our Founders taught us so well,. . . [that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.