Citizens Quotes · Page 77

A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to…

— Howard Gardner

I think it's very important to be able to hear from our public leaders in ways that they can't entirely orchestrate, seeing…

— David Folkenflik

I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an…

— Sarah Palin

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

— A. L. Rowse

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

— Edward Snowden

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

— Bill McKibben

We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…

— Thomas Jefferson

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

— Richard Lamm

Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen…

— Pankaj Mishra

We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're…

— Yvon Chouinard

“The greatest activist is the conscientious commoner.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors…

— David O. McKay

We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT…

— Hillary Clinton

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

— Joseph Rotblat

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist,…

— Anonymous

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

— Grace Meng

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet…

— Edward Snowden

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties…

— James Howard Kunstler

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that…

— John Mica

The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will…

— Ron Paul

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever…

— Winston Churchill

We now live in an amazing digital world, and television is firmly part of that brave new world. Television is still the…

— Neelie Kroes

Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe…

— Albert Einstein

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world…

— Tarkan

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

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

— Chris Christie

It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago.…

— Simone Weil

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

— Anonymous

Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the…

— Jerome Bruner

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another…

— Edward Kennedy

Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the…

— Rose George

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that…

— Tom Rooney

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle…

— Ronald Reagan

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

— Herman Melville

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless,…

— Charles Edison

Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they…

— Woody Allen

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

— Werner Herzog

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every…

— Baron de Montesquieu