#fellow citizens

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We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.


Jodi Rell


#always #choose #citizens #fairness #faith

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.


Damon Runyon


#baby #changing #chap #citizens #clothes

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.


Aeschines


#assured #citizen #citizens #constitution #democracy

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.


Aristotle


#anxious #certain #character #citizens #disposition

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.


Michael D. Barnes


#citizens #day #die #died #entire

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.


William Blackstone


#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.


Mitch Daniels


#around #attracts #best #big #big change

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?


Mitch Daniels


#assume #balance #believe #best #citizens

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.


Karl Kraus


#consequences #curses #fellow #fellow citizens #law

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.


Scott Walker


#close #employees #expect #fair #fellow