The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business! — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another. — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Freedom means the right to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that… — Zechariah Chafee Copy Share Image
Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders. — George Carlin Copy Share Image