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In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the ...

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The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has na...

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This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—wo...

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Victor Davis HansonCarnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be ...

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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude...

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I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to th...

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[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," ...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and ha...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselve...

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The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of free...

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We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. A...

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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...

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You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses...

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[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the en...

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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of Ame...

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