I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.
You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled. " But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted. . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds. '
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.