Citizens Quotes

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. Most of the people killed by these groups have been Muslim.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.

I will not back down from defending America. I got elected on defense of our country. I keep my campaign promises, and our citizens will be very happy when they see the result.

I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.

Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

Good ball players make good citizens.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.