“Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.” YearsLittlesSocialSecurityCitizensTaxesIncreaseIncomeFairnessSenatorsEarningSeniorSocial SecurityIncome TaxSenior Citizen Author:William Weld
“When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.” DoeBodyTogetherLawPurposeIndividualCommonRightsCitizensExerciseAuthorityFindingsDignityIncreaseIndependenceObedienceProtectedSubmitCitizenshipRecognizingConfinedDecreaseRenderingCommon Purpose Author:Calvin Coolidge
“An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.” IfsMayUseJobsEnergyCitizensCostTaxesIncreaseBillsElectricitySeniorSenior CitizenCost Of Living Author:Newt Gingrich
“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.” StatesShowsLawProcessCommonNumbersEffortRightsCitizensEqualIncreaseVictimDenyProtectionDuesHonestlyTendenciesInvasionSavageryLynchingDue ProcessEqual ProtectionDue Process Of Law Author:H. L. Mencken
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.” PoliticalIndividualNumbersRightsGroupsCitizensMassIncreaseProportionRulersMonopolyPolitical Rights Author:Paul Lafargue
“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
“There is no need to increase the taxes. India can run without troubling the citizens.” NeedsRunningCitizensTaxesIndiaIncrease Author:Narendra Modi
“The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.” PeopleKnowsWayGovernmentHappensPoliticalProcessCitizensInvolvedDemandPercentIncreaseVotersParticipationVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders