I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He must protect the lives and interests of the people, appeal to his fellow citizens' patriotic interests, and, in general, set the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they've lived through one international humiliation after another, one after another. We all… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The free circulation of citizens, which is sacrosanct, cannot become the free circulation of criminals. — Franco Frattini Copy Share Image
We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games. — Louise Erickson Copy Share Image
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens — Steve King Copy Share Image
“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones” — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States. — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them. — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
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