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"A citizen is one who participates in power." -Aristotle, ca. 330 B.C.
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"A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of [other] precautions...such [as checks and balances on the separate federal powers]." -James Madison, 1788
"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people." -Louis Brandeis, 1927
"First the [Nazis] came for the socialists, then labor unionists, then Roma, then homosexuals, and then Jews, and I didn't speak out because I was none of these. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." -Martin Niemoller, ca. 1945
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country" -John F. Kennedy, 1961
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