Citizens Quotes
I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.
Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America.
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.
Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'
A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.
I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.
Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.
I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.
The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.
We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.
I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.
It is no coincidence that the American hunter is the most patriotic of all our citizens. Who cares more for this land's beauties than he?