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“What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending the country. That's important and it needs to be corrected. Part of the integration is also taking it on themselves the burden, if you will, or the obligation to defend their country.”

Ifs Needs Important Country Rights Citizens Equal Burden Obligation Integration Equal Rights

Author:Moshe Arens

“There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.”

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Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

“My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as I want to be a part of the community and be a citizen.”

Want Country Community Citizens Hopefully Assets My Future Perth

Author:Kevin Wall

“Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.”

Ifs Country Together Motivation Nations Steps Citizens India Steps Forward

Author:Narendra Modi

“I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.”

Country Belief Proud Citizens Core Our Country Proud To Be An American Proud American

Author:John Linder

“What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage.”

People World Country Happens America Nations Enjoy Citizens Ordinary Fishing Heritage Hunting Other Countries Ordinary Citizens Hunting And Fishing

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.”

“The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.”

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Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.”

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Author:John Howard

“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?”

“A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.”

Has Beens Said Country Particular Citizens Economics Merchants

Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.”

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Author:David Mamet

“So, apparently, if you are a pre-sentient mass of cells, this country will protect you and your rights to the n-th degree. If you have made the mistake of becoming an Iraqi citizen, apparently we can just drop bombs on you with impunity.”

Ifs Made Country Mistake Rights Becoming Citizens Protect Degrees Mass Cells Bombs Protect You Impunity

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.”

Country Political Citizens Maturity

Author:Frank Prochaska

“Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.”

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Author:Ron Wyden

“Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.”

People World Country Born Rights Becoming Citizens Speech Mirrors Fundamentals Democratic Raised Freedom Of Speech Cuba Venezuela Mirror Image Democratic Rights

Author:Maria Conchita Alonso

“To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'”

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Author:Edgar Mitchell

“Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.”

“And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.”

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Author:Taylor Branch

“NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.”

Want Persons Country Young Citizens Available Fantastic Programmes

Author:David Cameron

“Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.”

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Author:Larisa Alexandrovna

“What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.”

Giving Country Certain Impossible Information Duty Source Citizens Safety Agency Guarantees Other Countries Intelligence Agencies

Author:Angela Merkel

“I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.”

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Author:Fatima Bhutto

“I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.”

Ifs Want Should Believe Country Together Force I Believe United Citizens Canada Civil Society

Book:Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Source: Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression... All nations can coexist peacefully.”

“It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.”

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Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.”

Country Parent Goal Simple Son Brother Citizens Caring Being True Our Country Honorable Life Goal Good Citizen

Author:Benigno Aquino III

“[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.”

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Author:Thein Sein

“It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love, a property to defend, and some share in enacting those laws which it was their interest, as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.”

“Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.”

Wells Doe Country Government Challenges Media Citizens Treats Determined Conventions Elites Passive Ignored Affirming Posing Dissidents

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.”

Country Faces Differences Citizens

Author:Enoch Powell

“I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.”

Source: So shall ye reap: selected addresses

“We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.”

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Author:Rajiv Gandhi

“Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government job, essential to national security. I AM A CITIZEN. Like the Supreme Court judges, my job is for life, and the well-being of my country depends on me. It seems fair to think that I should be held accountable for my record in the same way I expect accountability from those who seek elected office. I would like to be able to say that I can stand on my record and am proud of it.”

“The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.”

People Knows World Country Citizens

Book:The Samuel Gompers Papers: A national labor movement takes shape, 1895-98

Source: The Samuel Gompers Papers: A national labor movement takes shape, 1895-98

“Never discount a country by their size or resources. What may not be useful to yours, could be greatly beneficial to other lands in need. Everything exists with a purpose. True wealth is what cannot be seen. While one country can have a huge powerful military, another land may lack the budget and manpower to compete with it -- but be filled with happy citizens.”

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Author:Suzy Kassem

“Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.”

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Author:F. David Mathews

“I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.”

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Author:Brad Stine

“Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.One of the things my grandfather instilled in me, was that I was really blessed because I was a citizen of the greatest country in the history of our mankind.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“ISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries.”

“The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with...”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina