Citizens Quotes

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.