It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
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Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights
Paul said I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a city in Cilicia a citizen of no mean city.
I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.
Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.