“Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.” OrderRightsPolicyOughtCitizensHighestSelfishMotiveAttachmentLowestSelfish Motives Author:George Mason
“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.” ShouldChildrenCountryAmericaYoungGrowsGoalLosesGrowing UpSuccessfulViolenceCitizensHealthyHighestGunAdultsAbuseAddictionYoung AdultIllValuableEducatedSecureJailOur FutureGun ViolenceGood CitizenIll HealthSingle Child Author:John F. Kerry
“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.” IfsMeanGrowsDarkWhiteHigherCitizensProtectHighestSafetyRoundsSaintNecksFeminineThroatConventionsWornCommitteesPublic LifeObsceneRibbonsCrimsonPublic SafetyInversions Author:Hilary Mantel
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.” GivingHeartCountryPleasureConditionsCitizensMy HeartHighestStandardsGive MeCrisisFellowsBottomCitizenshipGreatest Pleasures Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers
“Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.” WorldMeanMillionsFiveCitizensHighestTwentiesNovelistsCanadaTwenty FiveRatios Author:George Will
“Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.” AmericaWorstCrimeCitizensHighestGunRateViolentGun ControlLowestViolent CrimesCrime RatesGun SafetyArmed Citizens Author:Ted Nugent
“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.” KnowsShouldHas BeensSaidInspirationNationsInspiringCompassionCitizensHighestTreatsPrisonJailPrisonerJudgedLowestApartheidLong Walk To FreedomPrison System Author:Nelson Mandela