I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
“...our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime.” — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire.… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation -… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t… — Ford Frick Copy Share Image
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of… — Paul Wellstone 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
I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and… — Plato Copy Share Image
I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself -… — Frankie Knuckles Copy Share Image
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's happened is that our government has been taken over by a secret government, which is associated with President Obama. And this… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
![“In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.” quote by Dick Durbin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/601/dick-durbin-3181_american-citizens_in-going-too-far-they-presidents-have-ta_2774936.jpg)
