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“When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.”

Humans Wells Government Principles Human Nature Possibility Citizens Possession Cease Concentration Camps Household Honored Likelihood Concentration Camp

Book:The Long-Legged House

Source: The Long-Legged House

“From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.”

Should Firsts Chance Saws Conditions Citizens Cease

Book:Autobiographies

Source: Autobiographies

“Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.”

Trying Kind Use Turns Courses Force Natural Cases Citizens Easier Succeed Function Average Cease Proportion Efficiency Competent Incompetent

Book:Essays--scientific, political and speculative

Source: Essays--scientific, political and speculative

“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.”

“A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.”

Mind May Matter Whole Body America Time Sound Change Challenges Ability Accepting Doubt Acceptance Citizens Loyalty Cease Doctrine Instant Officials Republic Loyal Questioning

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.”

Believe Fighting Leadership Air Honest Citizens Fellows Cease Instant Thin Air

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts contrary to the people's interests deposes itself, ceases to be a legitimate government, and, therefore, citizens are no longer obligated by Scripture to obey it.”

People Government Interest Common Citizens Contrary Scripture Cease Common Good Legitimate Government

Author:Daniel L Dreisbach