Citizens Quotes
Citizens Quote of the day
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.
A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.
We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.
Countries are stronger and more prosperous when the voices and opinions of all their citizens can be heard.
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.
It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.
You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.
What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.
