Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
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Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. SISTER HELEN PREJEAN To develop the human capital, we want our citizens to be fully equipped with knowledge, practice goo... ABDULLAH BADAWI To develop the human capital, we want our citizens to be fully equipped with knowledge, practice goo... ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. ANGELA MERKEL Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. ROLLO MAY I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D... ZACHARY TAYLOR Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state -... RICK PERLSTEIN The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before... GEORGE STEPHENSON On behalf of the American Muslim community, it is heartening to see that, in this case, American Mus... ARSALAN IFTIKHAR Today, as you observe the moral, economic, and fiscal decay of this great country, remember that it ... TRAVIS J HEDRICK The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of abil... PETER FRASER And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. ... SHARRON ANGLE The Constitution is very similar to a human skeleton. It is the framework upon which government oper... E. HICKS The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Gove... JAMES MADISON Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, ... FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK It comes down to whether county government has a moral responsibility to protect its citizens. TERRY ANDREESSEN When citizens testify before grand juries, they are required to tell the truth. The requirement to t... PATRICK FITZGERALD which has worked hard to reach this goal, feels even more the moral duty to support the brave Iraqi ... FRANCO FRATTINI It's important for the citizens of this country and the citizens of the world to know there were mor... JAMES HALL Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that al... CHARLES KOCH She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century. ROBERT MCNAMARA Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The co... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN This country and our Constitution guarantee freedom of speech and association. Censorship at our bor... CAROLINE FREDRICKSON How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let's make this a true lan... LAURENE POWELL JOBS In the end, we all have our different levels of moral values. EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence an... JEFF MILLER Our values and behaviors are incongruent, and this incongruence causes us a certain degree of moral ... MELANIE JOY We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas... VIRGIL GOODE We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values. JERRY SPRINGER killed thousands of our citizens and seek to kill many more. A. BUSH Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. HERBERT HOOVER Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. HERBERT CLARK HOOVER These paintings are kept in Russia, in Moscow, but they are the achievements of all citizens of the ... BORIS GRYZLOV Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values... SAM HARRIS This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president. HOWARD DEAN The citizens of this state deserve honest government. PATRICK FITZGERALD We live the values of this country. JUAN GOMEZ The dignity of the kingdom never eludes kingdom citizens SUNDAY ADELAJA We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstructio... SUN YAT-SEN It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in Bri... MAURICE SAATCHI My task is not to defer to our worst fears, but to interpret and apply the law, in this case, the Fr... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN a chance to say to people in the neighborhood, 'We share values -- rule of law, justice, human right... LAURA BUSH Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST A very small bunch of corrupt politicians believe that allowing Radovan Karadzic to stay at liberty ... PADDY ASHDOWN We have conceived Games which are not wasteful or disproportionate, but rather games based on effici... BERTRAND DELANOE The government had an obligation to tell and inform all EU citizens of our voting rights. They didn'... DAVID BALL Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of fami... IMELDA MARCOS In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to so... JOHN AUDUBON In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to so... JOHN JAMES AUDUBON In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am a... HELEN PREJEAN I'm embarrassed for our state. We're not only finding a way to prey upon our own citizens but we're ... SUE BERKOWITZ The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values. AYN RAND The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for toleran... AGA KHAN IV Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in whic... JONATHAN SACKS The Republic of China (Taiwan) deeply regretted this and decided to break relations with Senegal imm... MICHEL LU What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. THOMAS MANN The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the g... RICHARD MITCHELL Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which ar... MATTHEW SIMPSON The only way God could get any closer to humanity than by taking upon Himself our human flesh was to... DAVID L. HATTON I was concerned that I had not broached this topic with my young child yet and I was concerned that ... ROBIN WIRTHLIN Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the of... ALDOUS HUXLEY The north of peacebuilding is best articulated as finding our way toward becoming and being local an... JOHN PAUL LEDERACH We want to appeal to our Canadian government officials to protect the dignity of Canada and the inte... JOEL CHIPKAR Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, excep... EMIL M. CIORAN I don't understand our willing disregard for the sanctity of human dignity that's reflected in human... BARBARA OLSHANSKY Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove... JOHN ADAMS The privacy and dignity of our citizens are being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Ta... WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. ... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form o... EDUARDO PAES The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and app... LAWRENCE KOHLBERG The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and a... JOHN LYNCH Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy d... AMITY SHLAES Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find... MARK TWAIN At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a ver... WALTER LIPPMANN America should be showing true leadership on the great moral issues of our time _ like poverty _ ins... JOHN EDWARDS Violence is not a respecter of persons and, just like everyone has human rights, every human can hav... DERICK VIRGIL Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. BENJAMIN DISRAELI Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figur... SHERRY TURKLE It's definitely possible this year. This is one of our deepest, if not our deepest, teams. DON HELLING The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From our point of view, the main sticking point was the issue of allowing persons to come in and sue... JAMES HARDWAY The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact surv... NEWT GINGRICH Dignity is quality of being wothy of honour or respect with ability to stand strong without compromi... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow cit... GROVER CLEVELAND It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may ... NOAH WEBSTER Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must projec... JEFF FORTENBERRY We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the futu... WALTER DEAN MYERS Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet. BARACK OBAMA The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its... THOMAS C. HALIBURTON The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its... THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON Sadly, today our borders are a sieve, allowing illegal immigrants to pour into the country, GIL GUTKNECHT The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist ... JOHN ORTBERG The Government strongly condemns this attack and expresses its deepest sympathies to the families of... ANUSHA PELPITA Air quality should be top of the agenda. This was a problem which was affecting all of the country a... JOSEPH MUSCAT We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens. BOB EHRLICH Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely an... HARRY BLACKMUN Enron depends upon government policies to enhance their bottom line in lots of ways, ... The company... CRAIG MCDONALD Enron depends upon government policies to enhance their bottom line in lots of ways. The company rel... CRAIG MCDONALD As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the ... IMMANUEL KANT
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