“The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.” CountryProblemSpiritAttentionCitizensCallingSolutionsDebtCampaignsPracticalsBoardsCooperationPragmatismPetitionsNational DebtVermont Author:Peter Welch
“Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.” ShouldReasonActionPainAttentionCrimeCitizensFindingsPoliceCarefulCategoriesUnusualBe CarefulInventingOffenceUndesirable Author:A. P. Herbert
“The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.” PeopleNeedsChildrenCareCultureBusinessAttentionGroupsPositionCitizensDeserveResponsibleTake CareAssumptionUrgesBeing Responsible Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” GivingPoliticsForceAttentionLibertyArmsCitizensGiving UpApproachGunPreservesPatriotismSuspectsJealousAmendmentsGun ControlRuinedFoundingJewels4th Of JulyFreedom And LibertyIntriguingSecond AmendmentFreedom LibertyProperty RightsFirearmsRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsIndividual LibertyGun RightsRights And FreedomsPro GunFounding Fathers GunIndividual Freedom2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentFramersPublic TrustPrice Of FreedomAnti GunAmendment 1Tyranny Founding FathersStrong ArmsAmending The ConstitutionAmendment 19Amendment 4Security And FreedomAmendment 13Guards Up Author:Patrick Henry
“Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.” WorldGovernmentPastAttentionSeriousMonthsCitizensProtectIncreaseDespiteGenocideSudanDarfur Author:Tom Allen
“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.” NeedsLooksGirlCoursesSportsSpaceAttentionAcceptingClassBoysTeachTeamEventsFootballCitizensEqualPrivilegeEqualityTreatedGet BetterTreatmentWomens RightsLightingFootball TeamSecond Class CitizensYearbookEqual Treatment Author:Mariah Nelson
“A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.” CausesAttentionCitizensFellowsAwakePatriotComplaintsGrievance Author:Samuel Adams
“I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."” ShouldWellsHas BeensSaidStatesFactsHomeAmericaDesireNationsUnitedAttentionUnited StatesCitizensConstitutionFactorsPreservationContributingConstitution Of The United States Author:David O. McKay
“We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self - an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself.” WayKindHas BeensSelfCountryGovernmentAbleInterestAttentionCitizensIdeologyConsumersElitesNarcissismCultBehalfPerniciousOligarchyHedonism Author:Chris Hedges
“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.” GivingInterestCommunityExistenceAttentionSocietyDutyCitizensMembersPaidPoliceWelfareLaw EnforcementPolicemenIncumbents Author:Robert Peel