Citizens Quotes
2419 Citizens quotes by 1406 unique authors
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Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to…
— George Washington
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the…
— Noah Webster
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A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.
— Ronald Reagan
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own…
— William O. Douglas
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The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was…
— Robert Ringer
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The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting…
— Harry Browne
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I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so…
— William Bennett
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Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
— Ludwig von Mises
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If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."
— Gore Vidal
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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort…
— Charles Tilly
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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they…
— H. L. Mencken
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In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of…
— Herbert Spencer
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,…
— Aldo Leopold
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen,…
— Gordon W. Allport
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and…
— Mark Twain
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The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!
— Barbara Boxer
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
— James Madison
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To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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