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Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Earl Warren

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Government People Perspective Politics Progress
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Force Freedom Liberty Power World
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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Doubt Introduction Law Politics Rule
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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Communication Dangerous Electric Greatness Privacy
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Discover Electric Invention Man Money Technology
Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Citizenship One Liner Privilege Right
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
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Choice Decision Diversity Fragments Honor Result Society Strength Tension
A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.
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Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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Patience Reason Strike Wait War
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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Economic People Representation Vote
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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Failure Nation Ourselves Time Tragedy
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
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Heart Learning Mistake Worry

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