Some articles on citizens:
... The government has established statutes regulating who can become naturalized citizens because of the benefits it brings ... the government has assigned to being able to compel military service of its citizens if necessary ... governing naturalization and are of vital importance, for if all or a large number of citizens oppose such defense the 'good order and happiness' of the United States cannot long endure ...
... Royal Lyceum Theatre (preview, Edinburgh International Festival), Glasgow Citizens Theatre Cassio in Othello - Royal Shakespeare Company Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream - RSC Pompey in Antony and ...
... as Mogens Herman Hansen suggest the pnyx was able to hold about 6,000 citizens, though later expansions may have accommodated 8,000 or as many as 13,0 ... states that the Pnyx had enough standing room for as many as 20,000 citizens ... as a reasonable estimate of the number of politically active citizens (citizens were free males born in the city, or perhaps 20% of the adult ...
... Civil à lAide Technique (VCAT) is a voluntary service in the French overseas territories for citizens from France, citizens of other EU member states or citizens of countries belonging to the ...
... The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (hCa) is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe ... gave rise to a new peace movement called the “Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly” ... the division of Europe is the job, especially, of civil society, of citizens acting together in self-organized associations, movements, institutions, initiatives and clubs across ...
Famous quotes containing the word citizens:
“With steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the good old “central ideas” of the Republic. We can do it. The human heart is with us—God is with us. We shall again be able not to declare, that “all States as States, are equal,” nor yet that “all citizens as citizens are equal,” but to renew the broader, better declaration, including both these and much more, that “all men are created equal.””
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens ... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand ... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“I believe the citizens of Marion County and the United States want to have judges who have feelings and who are human beings.”
—Paula Lopossa, U.S. judge. As quoted in the New York Times, p. B9 (May 21, 1993)