Citizens Quotes
I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.
I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.
Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.
People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.
Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.
One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.
The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.
The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall.
The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
The crown jewel of Dr. King's movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.
A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.
There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.
If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.
Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.
If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.
This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.
The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.
Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.
The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.
Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.