We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders…

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

— Thomas Aquinas

When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the…

— Wendell Berry

People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens…

— Timothy D. Snyder

For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at…

— Geoff Mulgan

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

— Pico Iyer

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from…

— Aristotle

There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

— Edward Snowden

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

— Edward Snowden

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it…

— Edward Snowden

A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach…

— Grover Cleveland

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…

— Butch Otter

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant…

— James Madison

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to…

— Andrew Jackson