Citizens Quotes
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.
No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.
WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.
I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.
Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live
There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.
When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.
A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.
