Citizens Quotes

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.

If you are a Morocco citizen with a dual nationality, if you commit a crime in Morocco you are stripped Moroccan nationality and send to our own country. We can learn from them in that respect.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

I have strongly supported the right to keep and bear arms. I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.