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“We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.”

Cold Citizens Relation Affection Our Family Zealous

Author:Edmund Burke

“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.”

Thinking Men Earth Citizens Relation Independent Valuable Time To Think Independent Women Better Man Valuable Things Fraternal Better Woman

Author:Samuel Gompers

“Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.”

Humans Christian Wealth Human Beings Citizens Relation Misers

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.”

Way White Attitude Color Citizens Capable Relation South Tolerance Race Relations Crossroads

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.”

“If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.”

Ifs Want Needs Country Certain Rights Citizens Normal Relation Cuba

Author:Marco Rubio

“War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.”

Knows Children States Form Nations Parent Natural Leader Roles Duty Habit Citizens Relation Fundamentals Who You Are Neighbor Arise Our Family Neighborhood Workplace Linked Parent Child

Author:Epictetus

“Those citizens are distracted by the toys technology has supplied, and fail to recognize the ways in which what they most deeply want is made vulnerable by the coming disruptions of human relations on an over-heated planet.”

Way Want Humans Made Technology Failing Planets Citizens Relation Vulnerable Toys Distracted Human Relations Disruption

Author:Philip Kitcher

“My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.”

Different Views Communication Keys Citizens Relation Operations Instant This Day Components Public Relations Inquisitive Instant Communication

Author:Alvin Adams