Citizens Quotes · Page 27

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

— Augustus

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

— James Cook

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

— Thomas Jefferson

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for…

— Orson Scott Card

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

— Erich Fromm

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its…

— Glenn Greenwald

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead

If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin…

— Joan Dye Gussow

If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and…

— Barack Obama

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

The big thing is to make this country... quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with…

— Barry Goldwater

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination…

— George Washington

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government…

— Wangari Maathai

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy…

— Jim Garrison

Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population…

— Noam Chomsky

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying…

— Camille Paglia

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there…

— Haile Selassie

I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God,…

— Pat Robertson

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He…

— Milton Friedman

If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am…

— Charles Dickens

If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency…

— Charles Bowden

He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation…

— Grover Cleveland

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

— Ludwig von Mises

Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22…

— Traian Basescu

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen…

— Anonymous

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen…

— Vance Havner

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle…

— Joan Claybrook

I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

— James Connolly

Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

— Vladimir Putin

I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

— Eduardo Saverin

“A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother…

— Youns Hussein

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

— Calvin Coolidge

America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.

— Zoe Helene

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

— William H. Whyte

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

— Jonathan Gruber

Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

— Henry Rollins

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest…

— Baron de Montesquieu