Citizens Quotes

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

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.

What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

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

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people

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

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.

America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.

We are all citizens of history.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.