Citizens Quotes

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

— Guy Oseary

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

— Lewis Black

Big government makes small citizens.

— Mark Steyn

“Clean communities, healthy citizens.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Children are the citizens of tomorrow.

— Mallika Chopra

I stand with the working-class citizens.

— Richard Ojeda

“We must submit to God's righteous rule.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

— Patrick Henry

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

— Stuart Chase

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

— James A. Garfield

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

— Tony Judt

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

— Arlen Specter

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

— Carlos Fuentes

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

— Vicki Robin

We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.

— Tariq Ramadan

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

— Timothy M. Dolan

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

— Adam Smith

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

— John Pugsley

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

— Seth Godin

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone…

— Ted Cruz

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

— James Madison

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no…

— Donald Trump

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election- and for American…

— Craig Ferguson

I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands…

— Paul Craig Roberts

One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of…

— Martin Amis

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this…

— Cornel West

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes.…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help…

— Rush Limbaugh

We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers,…

— Thomas Pogge

The beauty of being citizens of this great nation is we have the freedom to disagree, to argue about that disagreement and…

— Brian Mast

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative…

— Dean Spade

The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point,…

— Rem Koolhaas

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much…

— Frank Chodorov

A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so…

— Jane Yolen

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to…

— James Madison

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay…

— Charles Tilly

Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary…

— Thomas Pogge

By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left…

— Dennis Prager