Citizens Quotes · Page 141

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

— John F. Kennedy

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public…

— Pericles

I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have…

— Gary Zukav

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

— Kate Braverman

As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched"…

— Christopher Durang

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

— Paul Collier

If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government…

— James Bovard

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of…

— Dennis Kucinich

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

— Thomas Jefferson

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

— John Rawls

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

— William Beveridge

[Subjects of the targeted killings] are supposed to be high-level Al Qaeda operatives that pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and…

— Medea Benjamin

...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It…

— Kenneth W. Royce

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they…

— Naomi Wolf

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

— Glenn Beck

Big government makes small citizens.

— Mark Steyn

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

— Nadeem Aslam

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

— David Baldacci

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was…

— Emily Haines

As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation…

— Pope Francis

Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature…

— Maximilien Robespierre

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower