"The state is the servant of the..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.
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“Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.”
“The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
“It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.”
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“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
“Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.”
“The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.”
More on Citizenship
“Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.”
“Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.”
“The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.”