Citizens Quotes

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

My administration will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the United States of America, believe me.

This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.